SOLUTION: can you please help me indicate if the following set of lines is parallel, perpendicular, or neither. (((y= 2x-5 y= 2x+5)))

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Question 153307This question is from textbook Algebra structure and method book 1
: can you please help me indicate if the following set of lines is parallel, perpendicular, or neither. (((y= 2x-5 y= 2x+5)))This question is from textbook Algebra structure and method book 1

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y=+2x-5 and y=+2x%2B5.

These two lines have the same slope: 2. That means that they are parallel, because parallel lines do not intersect, and two (coplanar) lines with the same slope would never intersect.