SOLUTION: What is the slope of a line perpendicular to the line passing through (-2,6) and (0,10)?

Question 82873: What is the slope of a line perpendicular to the line passing through (-2,6) and (0,10)?

Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
First lets find the slope of the line going through (-2,6) and (0,10)

Solved by pluggable solver: Finding the slope

Slope of the line through the points (-2, 6) and (0, 10)

Answer: Slope is

Remember, perpendicular slopes are always the negative reciprocal of each other. In other words we have

where is the perpendicular slope

so plug in the slope we solved for to find the perpendicular slope:

Plug in m=2

So the perpendicular slope is

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