Answer:
You will not be able to find the area of the framed painting without finding the length, which you did not provide. Assuming you meant “3 inches wide” to actually mean the length then the surface area of the painting is 9 inches squared. However, to find the height, you must divide 3 by 2.5 as the width was said to be 2.5 times the height of the painting. This will give you an answer of 1.2 inches in height.
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i don't see what they're being collinear has to do with it.
The slopes of perpendicular lines are negative reciprocal to each other
ex. the negative reciprocal to 5/2 is -2/5
once you find the perpendicular slope, you plug in the point and slope into the point-slope form of a line and then rearrange it into the slope-intercept form to get your answer
point slope

slope intercept form
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