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Which is the slope of a line perpendicular to the line 4x-2y=5?

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Rewrite the equation as
y = 2x - 5/2
The slope of THAT line is 2, the coefficient of x.

The slope of the perpendcular line must be -1/2, because the product of the two slopes (for perpendicular lines) must be -1

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