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For what value of a are the graphs of 6y=−2x+4 and 2y=ax−5 parallel?

User Maeve
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we get that the slope for the first line is


-(2)/(6)=-(1)/(3)

so we ge that


(a)/(2)=-(1)/(3)\rightarrow a=-(2)/(3)

User Andrey Shabalin
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