What is the slope of your line perpendicular to y=5x-12

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The answer is -1/5!!!!

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The slope of your line is the x-coefficient: 5.

The slope of a perpendicular line is the negative reciprocal of that: -1/5.

YonoRan answered Feb 18, 2019

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