Find the Perpendicular Line -3x-6y=17 ; (6,3)

$- 3 x - 6 y = 17$ ; $(6, 3)$

Step 1

Solve $- 3 x - 6 y = 17$ .

Add $3 x$ to both sides of the equation.

$- 6 y = 17 + 3 x$

Divide each term in $- 6 y = 17 + 3 x$ by $- 6$ and simplify.

Divide each term in $- 6 y = 17 + 3 x$ by $- 6$ .

$\frac{- 6 y}{- 6} = \frac{17}{- 6} + \frac{3 x}{- 6}$

Simplify the left side.

Cancel the common factor of $- 6$ .

Cancel the common factor.

$\frac{- 6 y}{- 6} = \frac{17}{- 6} + \frac{3 x}{- 6}$

Divide $y$ by $1$ .

$y = \frac{17}{- 6} + \frac{3 x}{- 6}$

Simplify the right side.

Simplify each term.

Move the negative in front of the fraction.

$y = - \frac{17}{6} + \frac{3 x}{- 6}$

Cancel the common factor of $3$ and $- 6$ .

Factor $3$ out of $3 x$ .

$y = - \frac{17}{6} + \frac{3 (x)}{- 6}$

Cancel the common factors.

Factor $3$ out of $- 6$ .

$y = - \frac{17}{6} + \frac{3 x}{3 \cdot - 2}$

Cancel the common factor.

$y = - \frac{17}{6} + \frac{3 x}{3 \cdot - 2}$

Rewrite the expression.

$y = - \frac{17}{6} + \frac{x}{- 2}$

Move the negative in front of the fraction.

$y = - \frac{17}{6} - \frac{x}{2}$

Step 2

Find the slope when $y = - \frac{17}{6} - \frac{x}{2}$ .

Rewrite in slope-intercept form.

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

$y = m x + b$

Reorder $- \frac{17}{6}$ and $- \frac{x}{2}$ .

$y = - \frac{x}{2} - \frac{17}{6}$

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

Reorder terms.

$y = - (\frac{1}{2} x) - \frac{17}{6}$

Remove parentheses.

$y = - \frac{1}{2} x - \frac{17}{6}$

Using the slope-intercept form, the slope is $- \frac{1}{2}$ .

$m = - \frac{1}{2}$

Step 3

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

$m_{perpendicular} = - \frac{1}{- \frac{1}{2}}$

Step 4

Simplify $- \frac{1}{- \frac{1}{2}}$ to find the slope of the perpendicular line.

Cancel the common factor of $1$ and $- 1$ .

Rewrite $1$ as $- 1 (- 1)$ .

$m_{perpendicular} = - \frac{- 1 \cdot - 1}{- \frac{1}{2}}$

Move the negative in front of the fraction.

$m_{perpendicular} = \frac{1}{\frac{1}{2}}$

Multiply the numerator by the reciprocal of the denominator.

$m_{perpendicular} = 1 \cdot 2$

Multiply $- - (1 \cdot 2)$ .

Multiply $2$ by $1$ .

$m_{perpendicular} = - (- 1 \cdot 2)$

Multiply $- 1$ by $2$ .

$m_{perpendicular} = 2$

Multiply $- 1$ by $- 2$ .

$m_{perpendicular} = 2$

Step 5

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

Use the slope $2$ and a given point $(6, 3)$ 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 $m = \frac{y_{2} - y_{1}}{x_{2} - x_{1}}$ .

$y - (3) = 2 \cdot (x - (6))$

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

$y - 3 = 2 \cdot (x - 6)$

Step 6

Solve for $y$ .

Simplify $2 \cdot (x - 6)$ .

Rewrite.

$y - 3 = 0 + 0 + 2 \cdot (x - 6)$

Simplify by adding zeros.

$y - 3 = 2 \cdot (x - 6)$

Apply the distributive property.

$y - 3 = 2 x + 2 \cdot - 6$

Multiply $2$ by $- 6$ .

$y - 3 = 2 x - 12$

Move all terms not containing $y$ to the right side of the equation.

Add $3$ to both sides of the equation.

$y = 2 x - 12 + 3$

Add $- 12$ and $3$ .

$y = 2 x - 9$

Step 7

Find the Perpendicular Line -3x-6y=17 ; (6,3)

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