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What is the slope of a line that is perpendicular to the line whose equation is 2y = 3x - 1?

User Voltan
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Answer:

-2/3

Explanation:

User TheLeonKing
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Answer:

The slope of the line is
-(2)/(3)

Explanation:

For any line
y=mx+b, a line that is perpendicular to it is
y_\perp =-(1)/(m) x+b.

Therefore the slope of the perpendicular line is
-(1)/(m).

For our case
y=(3)/(2)x-(1)/(2) therefore the slope of the prependicular is the reciprocal of
(3)/(2) multiplied by
-1.


\therefore\:slope=-(2)/(3).

User Meng
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