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ASAP!!! HELP!!! Consider the line y = 4x + 9. If a second line is perpendicular to this one, what is its slope?

User Isolin
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Answer:


-(1)/(4)

Explanation:

find the slope of y= 4x+9

m=4

find the integer

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(1)/(4)

User Qodeninja
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Answer:

- 1/4

Explanation:

THIS line equation is of the form y = mx + b m is the slope of this line

and it equals 4

PERPENDICULAR slope = - 1/m (ya just gotta learn this)

so that would be - 1/4

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