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What is the slope of a line perpendicular to the line whose equation is 6x+y=66x+y=6. fully reduce your answer?

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It looks like your equation repeated twice. I'm assuming it's 6x + y = 6.

I'm going to put your equation into slope-intercept form: y = - 6x + 6.

For the slope to be perpendicular, we do the opposite reciprocal of the slope given. So your slope of a perpendicular line is 1/6.
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