The engineers designing the all aboard railroad between boca raton and jupiter decide to create parallel tracks through this portion of the railway. to illustrate their plans to the county commission, they use a coordinate plane. the southbound track will have an equation of 2x 5y 15. what is the equation of the parallel northbound track that runs through the point (4, -2)?

there are no signs between the x and y and constant

it could be

2x+5y=15

2x+5y=-15

-2x+5y=15

2x-5y=15

for ax+by=c, the equation of a line paralell to that is

ax+by=d where a=a, b=b, and c and d are constants

(for this answer, I'm going to use 2x+5y=15)

given 2x+5y=15, the equation of a line paralell to that is 2x+5y=d

to find d, subsitute the point (4,-2), basically put 4 in for x and -2 for y to get the constant

2x+5y=d

2(4)+5(-2)=d

8-10=d

-2=d

the eqaution is 2x+5y=-2 (Only if the original equation is 2x+5y=-15