To make 35% sugar solution, pedro needs 2 and 1/2 or 2.5 ounces of 14% sugar solution, assuming a 14% of sugar is .75 or 2/4 ounce.
What does that even mean? can you re-word the question please?
Let us find the slopes of the two lines
ax+by=c, slope m1 = -a/b
bx-ay=c, slope m2 = b/a
m1*m2 = (-a/b)(b/a) = -1
Therefore the two lines are perpendicular so the answer is D