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Find the slope of a line parallel to each given line Y=-2x+1

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Two lines are parallel if they have the same slope.

In the line:


y=-2x+1

which is in slope-intercept form, the slope is -2 (the coefficient of the x-term). Then, the slope of the parallel line is -2.

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