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Consider the line y = x+8. What is the slope of a line parallel to this line? What is the slope of a line perpendicular to this line?
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Consider the line y = x+8.

What is the slope of a line parallel to this line?
What is the slope of a line perpendicular to this line?

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Answer: parallel is 1 and perpendicular is -1

Explanation:

parallel lines have the same slope and perpendicular have the opposite and negative of the slope.

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