Will mark brainiest what is the equation of the line that goes through the point (-4,1) and is perpendicular to the line represented by the equation below? 2x-y=17 a. y= -1/2x+1 b. y= - 1/2x+3 c. y= -1/2x-1 d. y= -1/2x-3

So, the first thing we need to do is find the slope, so we'll put the equation into slope intercept form

So, our slope in the original is 2, so to make it perpendicular we need to take the negative multiplicative inverse.  So, we flip the fraction, and multiply it by negative 1.  So, we get -1/2 for our new slope.  Now, we just put the numbers into point-slope form and solve

C is the correct answer

a

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i need the pts ignore this answer

check the picture below.

well, the angle at the vertex d is clearly not a right-angle, let's check for the one at the vertex f which does look like,   however if it's indeed, that means ef is perpendicular to df, in which case their slopes will be negative reciprocal of each other.

so the negative reciprocal of the slope of ef is 1, however the slope of df is not 1, is 1/2, so nope, they're not perpendicular lines.