Consider the line y = x+8. What is the slope of a line parallel to this line? What is the slope of a line perpendicular to this line?

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Mikayel Ghazaryan · Answer 1 · 2023-12-27T22:38:28+0000

Answer: parallel is 1 and perpendicular is -1

Explanation:

parallel lines have the same slope and perpendicular have the opposite and negative of the slope.