Find Any Equation Perpendicular to the Line 2y=-6x+8

$2 y = - 6 x + 8$

Step 1

Choose a point that the perpendicular line will pass through.

$(0, 0)$

Step 2

Divide each term in $2 y = - 6 x + 8$ by $2$ and simplify.

Divide each term in $2 y = - 6 x + 8$ by $2$ .

$\frac{2 y}{2} = \frac{- 6 x}{2} + \frac{8}{2}$

Simplify the left side.

Cancel the common factor of $2$ .

Cancel the common factor.

$\frac{2 y}{2} = \frac{- 6 x}{2} + \frac{8}{2}$

Divide $y$ by $1$ .

$y = \frac{- 6 x}{2} + \frac{8}{2}$

Simplify the right side.

Simplify each term.

Cancel the common factor of $- 6$ and $2$ .

Factor $2$ out of $- 6 x$ .

$y = \frac{2 (- 3 x)}{2} + \frac{8}{2}$

Cancel the common factors.

Factor $2$ out of $2$ .

$y = \frac{2 (- 3 x)}{2 (1)} + \frac{8}{2}$

Cancel the common factor.

$y = \frac{2 (- 3 x)}{2 \cdot 1} + \frac{8}{2}$

Rewrite the expression.

$y = \frac{- 3 x}{1} + \frac{8}{2}$

Divide $- 3 x$ by $1$ .

$y = - 3 x + \frac{8}{2}$

Divide $8$ by $2$ .

$y = - 3 x + 4$

Step 3

Use the slope-intercept form to find the slope.

The slope-intercept form is $y = m x + b$ , where $m$ is the slope and $b$ is the y-intercept.

$y = m x + b$

Using the slope-intercept form, the slope is $- 3$ .

$m = - 3$

Step 4

The equation of a perpendicular line must have a slope that is the negative reciprocal of the original slope.

$m_{perpendicular} = - \frac{1}{- 3}$

Step 5

Simplify $- \frac{1}{- 3}$ to find the slope of the perpendicular line.

Move the negative in front of the fraction.

$m_{perpendicular} = \frac{1}{3}$

Multiply $- - \frac{1}{3}$ .

Multiply $- 1$ by $- 1$ .

$m_{perpendicular} = 1 (\frac{1}{3})$

Multiply $\frac{1}{3}$ by $1$ .

$m_{perpendicular} = \frac{1}{3}$

Step 6

Find the equation of the perpendicular line using the point-slope formula.

Use the slope $\frac{1}{3}$ and a given point $(0, 0)$ to substitute for $x_{1}$ and $y_{1}$ in the point-slope form $y - y_{1} = m (x - x_{1})$ , which is derived from the slope equation $m = \frac{y_{2} - y_{1}}{x_{2} - x_{1}}$ .

$y - (0) = \frac{1}{3} \cdot (x - (0))$

Simplify the equation and keep it in point-slope form.

$y + 0 = \frac{1}{3} \cdot (x + 0)$

Step 7

Write in $y = m x + b$ form.

Solve for $y$ .

Add $y$ and $0$ .

$y = \frac{1}{3} \cdot (x + 0)$

Simplify $\frac{1}{3} \cdot (x + 0)$ .

Add $x$ and $0$ .

$y = \frac{1}{3} \cdot x$

Combine $\frac{1}{3}$ and $x$ .

$y = \frac{x}{3}$

Reorder terms.

$y = \frac{1}{3} x$

Step 8

Find Any Equation Perpendicular to the Line 2y=-6x+8

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