Equations of Parallel and Perpendicular Lines

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What are parallel lines?

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Parallel lines are lines in a plane that never meet. They have the same slope but different y-intercepts.

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What are perpendicular lines?

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Perpendicular lines are lines that intersect at a right angle (90 degrees). The slopes of two perpendicular lines are negative reciprocals of each other.

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How do you determine if two lines are parallel?

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Two lines are parallel if they have the same slope.

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How do you determine if two lines are perpendicular?

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Two lines are perpendicular if the product of their slopes is -1.

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What is the slope-intercept form of a line?

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If two lines have slopes of 2 and -rac{1}{2}, are they parallel, perpendicular, or neither?

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They are perpendicular because the product of their slopes is -1.