let's recall that in a Kite the diagonals meet each other at 90° angles, Check the picture below, so we're looking for the equation of a line that's perpendicular to BD and that passes through (-1 , 3).
keeping in mind that perpendicular lines have negative reciprocal slopes, let's check for the slope of BD
so we're really looking for the equation of a line whose slope is -1/3 and passes through point A
Answer:
and
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Step-by-step explanation:
So I believe the problem is this:
where we are asked to find values for and
such that the equation holds for any
in the equation's domain.
So I'm actually going to get rid of any domain restrictions by multiplying both sides by (x-3)(x+7).
In other words this will clear the fractions.
As you can see there was some cancellation.
I'm going to plug in -7 for x because x+7 becomes 0 then.
Divide both sides by -10:
Now we have:
with
I notice that x-3 is 0 when x=3. So I'm going to replace x with 3.
Divide both sides by 10:
So and
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