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The slope of a line is 5/9 and the slope of another line is -975. The two lines
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The slope of a line is 5/9 and the slope of another line is -975. The two lines are-example-1

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Answer:

the third option - they are perpendicular to each other.

Explanation:

for a perpendicular slope we need to exchange the x and y values (remember, a slope is the ratio of y/x) and flip the sign.

and that is exactly what happened here.

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