Slopes and Parallel and Perpendicular Lines
Slopes and Parallel and Perpendicular Lines Problem Set
Use your knowledge of the slopes of parallel and perpendicular lines to answer the following questions.
- Given: P(1,3) and Q(3,7)
What is the slope of PQ ?
- What is the slope between the points (−5,−1) and (−8,3)?
- What is the slope of a line that is perpendicular to a line that contains the points A(−12,5) and B(−2,3)?
- What is the slope of a line that is parallel and perpendicular to the line on the graph?
- Choose which of the following equations is parallel to the line y = −6x + 5.
- y = 16x − 3
- y = 6x + 1
- y = −16x + 4
- y = −6x − 2
Parallel:
Perpendicular:
- Which of the followings equations is perpendicular to the line y =15x − 3?
- y = 15x + 12
- y = −15x − 8
- y = −5x + 7
- y = 5x + 9
- Determine if the following lines are parallel, perpendicular, or neither.
y =23x + 5
−4x + 6y = −8
- Determine if the following lines are parallel, perpendicular, or neither.
y = 4x+2
−8x + 2y = 6
- Determine if the following lines are parallel, perpendicular, or neither.
6x + 10y = 20
y =53x + 1
- What are the possible coordinates of C, so that DC is parallel to line m?
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