What is the slope of a line perpendicular to $y = 4 x + 3$ $y=4x+3$ ?

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What is the slope of a line perpendicular to $y = 4 x + 3$ $y=4x+3$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2014-09-13T05:36:16

Luckily in this example the equation is already in slope intercept form so we can easily identify the slope. In this example the slope is $4$ $4$ or $\frac{4}{1}$ $4/1$ .

We find the negative reciprocal by changing the sign and flipping the current slope.

Solution: $- \frac{1}{4}$ $-1/4$

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