SOLUTION: The slope of a line is -7/6. What is the slope of any line perpendicular to this line?

Question 369591: The slope of a line is -7/6. What is the slope of any line perpendicular to this line?
Found 2 solutions by acalgebra, ewatrrr:
Answer by acalgebra(30) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Because the slopes of perpendicular lines are opposite reciprocals, the slope of a line perpendicular to a line with a slope of is .
Answer by ewatrrr(24785) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Hi,
Perpendiculars line have slopes that are negative reciprocals of one another.
Lines perpendicular to a line with a slope = -7/6 would have slopes = 6/7

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