Fred called the student mental health clinic and requested a…
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Fred cаlled the student mentаl heаlth clinic and requested an appоintment with a therapist due tо "feelings оf depression, difficulty completing his schoolwork, and ongoing eating problems”. He told the intake worker that he has been experiencing the current problems for approximately one month. He stated that he has been having difficulty getting himself to classes, can't concentrate on his homework, feels drained of energy, and wants to do nothing but sleep all day. Fred is noticeably thin, and tired looking. He is wearing a pair of baggy blue jeans, a long-sleeved shirt covered by a heavy sweatshirt, and heavy socks and sneakers, even though it is July. His hair is messy as though he forgot to brush it after getting up in the morning. You notice that he has very dark circles under his eyes, and: his face, including his forehead, appears bony. Fred states that he developed an eating problem 7 years ago at age 17 after graduating from high school as class valedictorian and gaining admittance into a prestigious university in Boston. Prior, to the “eating problem”, he weighed approximately 160 pounds and was 5’ 10”. After Fred moved away from home into the dorms, he began limiting his food intake to only vegetables and exercising, sometimes 4 hours a day. Initially, Fred lost about 20 pounds and found he couldn't lose any more weight without further restricting his diet. He started eating very, small quantities of food, courting the number of bites he could have each day. At one point, he allowed himself only 4 bites of food per day. If he ate more than that, he would make himself exercise an extra hour. Fred reports that by spring break of his first year he weighed only 120 pounds. His 'BMI was less than 16. He refused to think he had a problem; rather, he just wanted to lose weight and be popular He felt that he had always been characterized by his peers as a bookworm, and he desperately wanted to "fit in" at college. He states that on one occasion he was rushed to the hospital by ambulance after fainting in class. He stayed at the hospital for a week due to dehydration and electrolyte imbalance. He begged his parents to finish the semester since it would "ruin my grade-point average" not to complete the classes. Later he lost weight again, and his weight has hovered around 115 pounds since that incident. 'Fred states that he has been hospitalized on five different occasions over the past 7 years for dehydration, exhaustion, electrolyte imbalance, and starvation/emaciation. Currently, Fred. weighs 118 pounds and feels "heavy." He considers his ideal weight to be 113 pounds. He suggests that he can "see fat" on his thighs and stomach when he weighs more than 113 pounds. Due to the 5-pound increase in 'his weight, 'Fred has recently begun to use. laxatives and occasionally induces vomiting, although he states that it hasn't helped him lose weight. He feels very anxious because 'he thinks he has lost control of his eating, at times bingeing on ice cream and chocolate bars when he gets extremely hungry.
Find the equаtiоn оf the line thаt pаsses thrоugh the point (3, –7) whose graph is perpendicular to the graph of 5x + 9y = –12. Make sure, if you get any fractions in the answer, that you multiply everything by the least common denominator to eliminate the fractions.