Respuesta :

DeanR

The rule to remember about generating the perpendicular family to a line is we swap the coefficients on and x and y, remembering to negate one of them. Then the constant is set directly from the intersecting point.


So we have


y = 3x + 2


-3x + 1y = 2


Swapping and negating gets the perpendiculars; the constant is as yet undetermined.


1x + 3y = constant


Since we want to go through (0,2), we could have just written


x + 3y = 0 + 3(2) = 6


3y = -x + 6


y = (-1/3) x + 2


Third choice