A line with a slope of 5 rises by 5 units for every unit it moves horizontally, thus a line joining the two points (0,0) and (1,5) will have a slope, this line has the equation y = 5x
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The line perpendicular to a line with a slope of 1/5 has a slope of -5.
-5/3 it is always the opposite reciprocal for a perpendicular slope
X=5 is a vertical line, so it has no slope. When I say it has no slope, I don't mean the slope is 0, I mean the slope is nonexistent.
-5/3
If you are asking for slope, the slope of one line is m, the slope of the other is -1/m. For example, if the slope for one line is 5, the slope of the other line is -1/5 = -0.2 . (Math Open Reference)