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Is 2x - y = 5 and
-1/2x + y = 3 perpendicular?

User Lcfd
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Hello from MrBillDoesMath!


Answer: the lines are not perpendicular (as stated by another writer)


Steps:

Rewrite the first line (2x -y = 5) as y = 2x -5. So it's slope, m1, is "2"

Rewrite the second line ( -1/2x + y =3 ) as y = +1/2x + 3. So it's slope, m2, is +1/2.

Two lines are perpendicular if m1 * m2 = -1 which is NOT the case here (For us, m1 * m2 = 2 * (+1/2) = + 1 which is not -1. As they say, "close, but no cigar!)


Regards, MrB





User Plaxico
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They are not perpendicular.

User Hiccup
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