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Are the line y=x+3 and y=x-3 perpendicular

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Answer:

No, not perpendicular

Explanation:

Compare the slopes of the two lines. In each case the slope is 1. Therefore the slopes are not negative reciprocals of one another, and the lines are NOT perpendicular.

User Spandan Singh
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Answer:

no

Explanation:

to be perpendicular the second equation would have to be -x (the opposite of x)

these lines are parallel

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