What is the slope of the line with the equation y = 17x 1/17?

Apatient is given 50 mg dose of medicine the medicines effectiveness decreases every hour at a constant rate of 40% what is the exponential decay function that models this scenario how much medicine will be left in the patients system after 2 hours

896.31 cm= km 100cm = 1m 1000m = 1km a) 0.0089631 b) 0.0089631 c) 8.9631 d) 89.631

Can someone tell me if this is perpendicular? !