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It depends on what kind of line you are dealing with.

If you have the lines on paper...

  1. If they do not intersect, they are parallel.
  2. If they do, measure the angle. If it is 90° then they are perpendicular.
If you have the equations of the lines.
  1. If the slopes are the same, but they have a different y-intercept, they are parallel.
  2. if the slopes are inverse reciprocals of each other (i.e. 2 and -.5) then they are perpendicular.
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