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Question 176196: please help me solve this question: give the slope of a line perpendicular to the given line y = x-3
Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Perpendicular lines have slopes that are negative reciprocals.

From this line,

The slope is 1.



A line perpendicular to will have a slope of -1.

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