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A drafting technician is verifying the alignment of two boundary lines modeled by the equations y=βˆ’5xβˆ’4y = -5x - 4 and xβˆ’5y=5x - 5y = 5. To confirm the lines are perpendicular, the technician identifies the slope of the first line as -5 and calculates the slope of the second line to be ____.

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