First, it is important to understand that parallel lines have the same slope. Therefore, based on the formula y=mx+b in which m represents slope and based on the equation y=-1/2x+5, the slope of the unknown line is also -1/2. Then, there are two different ways to solve this problem using different formulas.
The first method to find the unknown equation is easy but not widely known. We can use the point slope formula which is (y-y1)=m(x-x1) in which we can plug a point and slope to find the equation. When we plug in the values given, we get y+6=-1/2(x-4) or y+6 =-1/2x+2 which simplifies to y=-1/2x-4.
The other method is using the slope intercept form or y=mx+b. When we plug in our slope and our point, we get -6=-1/2*4+b or -6=-2+b so b must equal -4, therefore we have all the information we need to plug values into y=mx+b. When we plug in our slope and y-intercept, we get y=-1/2x-4 which is the answer.
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I would use grams, because in my country watermelons are small, but if they were huge I would use kilograms
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We see that the ladder reaches a height of 6m from the ground while being 2.4 m from the wall. The ratio of the height to the length from the wall is 6:2.4 which can actually just simplify to 2.5 because 6m to is 2.4*2.5.
This person is 80 cm from the ladder's base. We just saw that you can take the distance from the wall (in this case, our wall is the human as the human is touching the height) and multiply it by 2.5 to find the height of the ladder at that specific point. So let's do that.
80*2.5= 200
We are looking for meters though. Since there are 100 centimeters in a meter, this is just going to be 2 meters.
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2x-4/x-5 = 0 (Determine the defined range)
x \neq 5
2x-4 = 0 (Move constant to the right side and change its sign)
2x=4
x=2, x \neq 5 (Check if the solution is in the defined range)
x=2