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The line m has a slope of 4. What is the slope of a line perpendicular to line m?

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Answer:

In order to make a slope perpendicular, you have to change its sign depending on whether it is negative or positive. And you have to change it upside down (its reciprocal)

Therefore,

-1/4

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