Question

What is the perpendicular slope to the line -2y - 5x = 10?

Answer 1

Your answer would be -5/2

hope this helps :)

Answer 2

Hey there,

We know that perpendicular lines have slopes that are negative reciprocal of the original slope.

The first step would be to make the equation into slope intercept form:

• y = $-\frac{2}{5}$ x - 5

Now we just find the negative reciprocal of the original equation which would be $\frac{5}{2}$ .

So the perpendicular slope of the line -2y - 5x = 10 would be $\frac{5}{2}$ .

Hope I helped,

Amna