Find the Slope of a Perpendicular Line -7x-5y=-3

$- 7 x - 5 y = - 3$

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.

$y = m x + b$

Add $7 x$ to both sides of the equation.

$- 5 y = - 3 + 7 x$

Divide each term in $- 5 y = - 3 + 7 x$ by $- 5$ and simplify.

Divide each term in $- 5 y = - 3 + 7 x$ by $- 5$ .

$\frac{- 5 y}{- 5} = \frac{- 3}{- 5} + \frac{7 x}{- 5}$

Simplify the left side.

Cancel the common factor of $- 5$ .

Cancel the common factor.

$\frac{- 5 y}{- 5} = \frac{- 3}{- 5} + \frac{7 x}{- 5}$

Divide $y$ by $1$ .

$y = \frac{- 3}{- 5} + \frac{7 x}{- 5}$

Simplify the right side.

Simplify each term.

Dividing two negative values results in a positive value.

$y = \frac{3}{5} + \frac{7 x}{- 5}$

Move the negative in front of the fraction.

$y = \frac{3}{5} - \frac{7 x}{5}$

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

Reorder $\frac{3}{5}$ and $- \frac{7 x}{5}$ .

$y = - \frac{7 x}{5} + \frac{3}{5}$

Reorder terms.

$y = - (\frac{7}{5} x) + \frac{3}{5}$

Remove parentheses.

$y = - \frac{7}{5} x + \frac{3}{5}$

Using the slope-intercept form, the slope is $- \frac{7}{5}$ .

$m = - \frac{7}{5}$

The equation of a perpendicular line to $y = - \frac{7}{5} x + \frac{3}{5}$ must have a slope that is the negative reciprocal of the original slope.

$m_{perpendicular} = - \frac{1}{- \frac{7}{5}}$

Simplify the result.

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

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

$m_{perpendicular} = - \frac{- 1 \cdot - 1}{- \frac{7}{5}}$

Move the negative in front of the fraction.

$m_{perpendicular} = \frac{1}{\frac{7}{5}}$

Multiply the numerator by the reciprocal of the denominator.

$m_{perpendicular} = 1 (\frac{5}{7})$

Multiply $\frac{5}{7}$ by $1$ .

$m_{perpendicular} = \frac{5}{7}$

Multiply $- - \frac{5}{7}$ .

Multiply $- 1$ by $- 1$ .

$m_{perpendicular} = 1 (\frac{5}{7})$

Multiply $\frac{5}{7}$ by $1$ .

$m_{perpendicular} = \frac{5}{7}$

Find the Slope of a Perpendicular Line -7x-5y=-3

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