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TSI Math: Recognizing the Equation for a Bisector of a Graphed Line 4 Views


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Which of the following lines is perpendicular to the line graphed above?


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00:02

Okay yes i mash bumpers We've got a fancy graph

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for you right here this thing all right which of

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the following lines is perpendicular to the line Graft above

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All right so this interesting gotta couple observations off the

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bat here It's a negative slope right So it's ah

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lining down there So the slope of the one perpendicular

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has to be the opposite And reciprocal Well perpendicular as

00:28

we said is a matter of slope We don't need

00:30

to graph the answer choices here Instead we just compare

00:33

the slopes visually like we're doing here It takes two

00:35

slopes to make a comparison and we need a single

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slope before we can have two So find slope of

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the given line starting at thehe y intercept zero Negative

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three right there The line moves Five units the right

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one unit down to reach five Negative four five right

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and one down is equivalent to will rise Overrun that's

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negative one over five or negative one fifth So that's

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a slope of this line Since we're dealing with purpose

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particular lines were looking for slopes that are negative Reciprocal

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sze will the negative reciprocal of negative one fifty five

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So we have to zoom in on an answer choice

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with a slope of five Luckily the answers are all

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written and slope intercept form y equals mx plus b

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so that should be easy The coefficient of the ex

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term am There is the slope in this form and

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the only answer with an ex coefficient of five And

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therefore a slope of five is y equals five x 00:01:22.212 --> [endTime] plus sixteen So well it is That's it

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