SOLUTION: find the slope
a line perpendicular to y=1/4x-5
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Question 166343: find the slope
a line perpendicular to y=1/4x-5
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Remember, perpendicular lines have slopes that are inverse reciprocals of one another. So in this case, the slope of the given line is . Flip the fraction and change the sign to get or just . So the slope of a line perpendicular to the given line is
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