Essay

Procedural Verification: Mapping Perpendicular Utility Paths

As an assistant drafting technician at a municipal planning firm, you are tasked with verifying a new utility pipeline design. On the site plan, a primary water main is laid out along a straight line represented by the equation y=3x+1y = 3x + 1. A secondary drainage pipe must be designed to run exactly perpendicular to the primary main, starting from a coordination connection point located at coordinates (4, 2).

To document this layout process for your drafting team, write a brief technical explanation (in essay format) that recalls and details the five-step algebraic mapping method used to construct the equation of this perpendicular drainage pipe.

Your response must explicitly recall and describe:

  1. How to identify the slope of the primary water main and state the mathematical relationship used to find the perpendicular pipe's slope.
  2. The specific point-slope formula retrieved from memory to model the new pipeline's path.
  3. The complete step-by-step procedural calculations used to substitute the coordinates (4, 2) and simplify the expression into the final slope-intercept equation y=13x+103y = -\frac{1}{3}x + \frac{10}{3}.

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