POP QUIZ: Parallel and Perpendicular Line Equation

What are they?

• Parallel

• Perpendicular

• Neither

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Which of the following lines is PARALLEL to the graph of y = -6x + 3 and goes through the point (-1,4)?

• y=1/6x +25/6

• y = 1/6x + 4

• y = -6x - 2

• y = -6x + 4

Write an equation of a line that passes through the point (-5,1) and is perpendicular to the line 5x + 3y = -21

• y = (-5/3)x - 7

• y = (3/5)x + 4

• y = (-3/5)x + 7

• y = 3x - 4

Write an equation of a line that passes through the point (7,10) and is perpendicular to the line y = (1/2)x - 9

• y = -2x - 24
• y = -2x + 12
• y = -2x  + 24
• y = (1/2)x - 12

Tags

CCSS.HSG.GPE.B.5

CCSS.HSA.CED.A.2

What are they?

• Parallel

• Perpendicular

• Neither

What are they?

• Parallel

• Perpendicular

• Neither

If two lines are parallel their slopes are  ____________

• the same.
• negative reciprocals of each other.

Tags

CCSS.8.EE.B.6

Write an equation of a line that passes through the point (-9,2) and is perpendicular to the line y = 3x - 12

• y = (-1/3)x - 1
• y = (1/3)x - 2
• y = -3x + 12
• y = 3x - 1

Tags

CCSS.HSG.GPE.B.5

What slope is perpendicular to:  
m = 5/8

• -5/8
• 5/8
• -8/5
• 8/5

Tags

CCSS.8.EE.B.6

Slopes of perpendicular lines are...

• negative reciprocals.

• opposites.

• the same.

• always 7.

Tags

CCSS.HSG.GPE.B.5