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What is the slope of a line perpendicular to line y equals -2x plus 6?
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The slope of the perpendicular to a line has a slope which is the negative reciprocal of the original line's slope.
The negative reciprocal of x is -1/x
So in this case, where the slope is -2 the perpendicular line has the slope -1/(-2) or simply 1/2
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