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Plz help, 15 points! What is the slope of a line that is perpendicular to a line whose equation is 5y=10+2x ------- Would it be -5/2 as in only the 5 is negative or the whole fraction is negative?
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Plz help, 15 points!

What is the slope of a line that is perpendicular to a line whose equation is 5y=10+2x

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Would it be -5/2 as in only the 5 is negative or the whole fraction is negative?

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Answer: The slope of the line would be -5/2, and the whole fraction would be negative.

Explanation:

Technically just the 5 is negative because the new slope is going down 5, yet on paper its just safer to write the whole fraction as a negative.

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