MODULE

3
LINEAR
EQUATIONS
IN TWO
VARIABLES
LESSON 8.5

EQUATION OF A LINE
(Using a Point and an Equation)
 Today’s Objectives
✔ recall the geometric definition of parallel and
perpendicular lines
✔ define parallel and perpendicular lines
algebraically
✔ to write an equation of a line, in standard form,
given a point and an equation
LET’S RECALL!
WHAT ARE WHAT ARE
PARALLEL LINES? PERPENDICULAR
Parallel lines are coplanar LINES?
Perpendicular lines are
lines that do not intersect. coplanar lines that intersect
and form four right angles

Two lines are parallel if Two lines are

their slopes are equal and perpendicular if their slopes
they have different are negative reciprocals of
y-intercepts. each other.
Without graphing, tell whether the graphs of each pair of
equations are parallel, perpendicular, or neither.
PARALLEL,
EQUATION 1 EQUATION 2 PERPENDICULAR, OR
NEITHER
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IT’S YOUR TURN!
 

 
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