SOLUTION: A line that is perpendicular to y = 2x+5 will have slope

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Question 479417: A line that is perpendicular to y = 2x+5 will have slope
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The slope of a line given in slope-intercept form, is equal to the coefficient on .

Perpendicular lines have slopes that are negative reciprocals, that is to say, the slope of one of the lines multiplied by the slope of its perpendicular results in -1.



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