How do you find the slope of the line parallel to and perpendicular to y=3x4?

2 Answers
Mar 1, 2017

Slope of line parallel is 3 while the slope of the perpendicular line is 13

Explanation:

The slope of any parallel is the slope of the original line.

For example: Given y = 23x+5 the slope of a parallel line will be 23 whereas the slope of a perpendicular line requires you to take the negative reciprocal of the slope.

Since the slope of this example is 23 its negative reciprocal is 32 (You just flip the fraction and negate it)

Mar 1, 2017

y has a slope of 3

Explanation:

So any line with the same slope is parallel to y. They will be of the form z=3x+b, (b being any number).

Perpendicular means that the product of the slopes must be 1.

In this case the slope must be 13 because 13×3=1

Any line of the form p=13x+b will do.