Consider the line y = 5x. What is the slope of a line perpendicular to this line? What is the slope of a line parallel to this line?

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Yitian · Answer 1 · 2020-07-06T21:09:45+0000

Answer:

A slope perpendicular would be -1/5x and a slope parallel would be 5x

Explanation:

Perpendicular means about the opposite, or a reciprocal, which is -1/5x. Parallel means the same so it would be 5x.