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What would be the slope of the line perpendicular to the line 4x + 2y = 12?
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What would be the slope of the line perpendicular to the line 4x + 2y = 12?

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4x + 2y = 12

Make y the subject:
4x + 2y = 12
2y = -4x + 12
y = -2x + 6

From the equation, we can identify that the slope is -2

Therefore the perpendicular slope will be 1/2

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