The parallel line will have the same slope which is 5. The perpendicular line will have a slope of which is the negative reciprocal. To assist you in seeing this relationship, look at 5 as the fraction . Its negative reciprocal would then be .
The Source. Cost of incarceration in the U.S. more than $1 trillion. The cost of incarceration in the United States exceeds $1 trillion, or six percent of gross domestic product, and dwarfs the amount spent on corrections alone, finds a new study from Washington University in St. Louis.
How much does it cost to incarcerate an inmate for a year? In Fiscal Year 2011-12, it cost $17,972 a year or $49.24 a day to feed, clothe, house, educate and provide medical services for an inmate at any state facility, and $14,059 to do so at a prison for adult males, which are the majority of individuals incarcerated in the Florida state prison system. For more inmate cost per day information, go to www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/annual/1112/budget.html.