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Given that the slope of a line is 1/3, what is the slope of a line that is pependicular to it ?
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Given that the slope of a line is 1/3, what is the slope of a line that is pependicular to it ?

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The slopes of two perpendicular lines are negative reciprocals of each other. The slope of the line perpendicular to the one in this question is -3.
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