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What is your slope of the line that contains the points (4,3) and (2,7)?

What is your slope of the line that contains the points (4,3) and (2,7)?-example-1
User Dcolumbus
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4 votes

Answer:

The Correct Answer is: B

Explanation:


User Horse
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For this case we have that the slope of a line is given by:


m = \frac {y_ {2} -y_ {1}} {x_ {2} -x_ {1}}

Where
(x_ {1}, y_ {1})\ and\ (x_ {2}, y_ {2}) are two points that belong to the line.

Then, having the following points:


(x_ {1}, y_ {1}) = (4,3)\\(x_ {2}, y_ {2}) = (2,7)\\m = \frac {y_ {2} -y_ {1}} {x_ {2} -x_ {1}}\\m = \frac {7-3} {2-4}\\m = \frac {4} {- 2}\\m = -2

Thus, the slope is given by
m = -2

Answer:


m = -2

Option B

User Miguel Trias
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