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A line has a slope of 4. What is the slope of any line perpendicular to this line.

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Answer:The answer is -4.


Step-by-step explanation: Perpendicular lines are lines that meet at a certain point; both making a 90 degrees angle. Which means that in the context of this situation the other line will have the exact same slope only pointing a different way. However the line pointing a different way has a crucial point to it since it changes the values to the slope . For example a negative slope is going down and a slope that is positive is going upwards. So the only logical answer here would be -4.


Hope this helps!

(P.S. Image posted below if i confused you too much with the explanation.)


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