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4.3 Exercise 70

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Use the descriptions of the pairs of lines to find the slopes of Line 1 and Line 2. Is each pair of lines parallel, perpendicular, or neither?

Line 1: Passes through (5,11) \left(5 , 11\right) and (10,1) \left(10 , 1\right)

Line 2: Passes through (−1,3) \left(−1 , 3\right) and (−5,11) \left(−5 , 11\right)

OpenStax Algebra and Trigonometry 2e, 4.3 Fitting Linear Models to Data, exercise 70

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