Explanation: The slope of a perpendicular line will always be the negative reciprocal of the slope of the given line. That means that you first have to find the slope of the given line by using the two points on that line:
Point 1: (-5, 4) Point 2: (-2, 4) Slope=(y2-y1)/(x2-x1) Slope=(4-4)/((-2)-(-5)) Slope=0/3
If the slope of the initial line is 0/3 and the slope of its perpendicular line is the negative reciprocal of that slope, that means the slope of the perpendicular line will be -3/0 which is undefined because you can’t divide -3 by 0.
Therefore, the slope of the perpendicular line is undefined, or in other words, there isn’t an exact slope.
First find the area of each wall. This is length*width which would be 12*8.5=102. There are four walls in the room because it’s a square so that would be 102*4=408. So the total area you need to paint is 408ft one gallon will cover 75ft so 408/75=5.44 gallons of paint.
