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the question is: what is the slope of a line that is perpendicular to the line in the graph. could you please explain to me how to do this? thanks.

the question is: what is the slope of a line that is perpendicular to the line in-example-1
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as i seeing the graph

the slope of the line perpendicular to the given line will be

m1 = 1

because the slope of the given line is, m2= -1

for perpendicular lines,


\begin{gathered} m_1* m_2=-1 \\ m_1*-1=-1 \\ m_1=1 \end{gathered}

so the slope of the perpendicular line is 1

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