SOLUTION: Consider the line y=6/5x+3 . The x is in the middle of the fraction 6/5x. What is the slope of a line perpendicular to this line? What is the slope of a line parallel to this l

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Question 98367: Consider the line y=6/5x+3 . The x is in the middle of the fraction 6/5x.
What is the slope of a line perpendicular to this line?
What is the slope of a line parallel to this line?

Answer by tutorcecilia(2152)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Perpendicular lines have negative reciprocal slopes:
Slope #1 = 6/5
Slope #2 = -5/6
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Parallel lines have the same slope:
Slope #1 = 6/5
Slope #2 = 6/5

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