What is the slope of the line perpendicular to $y=-1/3x+6$ ?

Question

4431 views around the world

You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License

Answer 1 · 2018-04-08T10:51:30

$color(red)("Slope of perpendicular line " m_1 = - 1/m = 3$

Standard form of Slope-Intercept equation is $y = m x + c$

Given equation is $y = -(1/3) x + 6$

Hence $Slope " " m = -(1/3)$

$color(red)("Slope of perpendicular line " m_1 = - 1/m = -(1/(-1/3)) = 3$

What is the slope of the line perpendicular to y=-1/3x+6 y=-1/3x+6 ?