SOLUTION: find the slope. throug (4,-2) and parallel to x=1

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Question 240825: find the slope. throug (4,-2) and parallel to x=1
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20055)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
find the slope. through (4,-2) and parallel to x=1
That's a vertical line, and it has NO slope!

All equations of the form 

x = a

are vertical lines which are " a " units from the y-axis.

The vertical line whose equation is x = 1 is this green
line below:



The point (4,-2) is this point plotted below:



The line parallel to the vertical line whose
equation is x = 1 which goes through the point
(4,-2) is the blue vertical line below:



Its equation is x = 4.  But neither line has a slope.
Vertical lines are the only kind of lines which have no slope.
All other lines have slopes.

Edwin

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