Given that the slope is 5, find the perpendicular slope. Round to the hundredth place.

Answer 1

Picture this problem in your head. Start at the origin of a coordinate-plane graph. Go up 5 and right 1. Draw a line from this point back to the origin, It slants to the right so it's positive. Its perpendicular will be negative

and slant to the left. The rule is opposite sign and a reciprocal, which you make by putting a 1 over the original

number. So the perpendicular of a slope of 5 is -1/5 or -0.20.

Answer 2

For two slopes to be perpendicular

m₁ = -1 / m₂

For 5, it is -1/5, or -0.5