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What is the slope of a line perpendicular to 3x + 4y = -2?

What is the slope of a line perpendicular to 3x + 4y = -2?-example-1
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Answer:


(4)/(3)

Explanation:

The slope of the perpendicular line will be the negative reciprocal of the original slope.

For this line, the slope is
-(3)/(4) , whose negative reciprocal is
(4)/(3)

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