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Please help me with this question!! Show steps

Please help me with this question!! Show steps-example-1
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Answer: Slope is -1

Using the slope formula, we get

m = (y2 - y1)/(x2 - x1)

m = (0 - 4)/(2 - (-2))

m = (0 - 4)/(2 + 2)

m = -4/4

m = -1

What's going on here is that we subtract the y values 0 and 4 to get -4. This means that we dropped 4 units vertically to go from A to B. This is the rise. So rise = -4

The run is 4 because we moved 4 units to the right to go from A to B. This is found algebraically when we subtracted the x coordinates, so 2 - (-2) = 2 + 2 = 4.

Slope = rise/run = -4/4 = -1

You have the correct answer, assuming you wrote -1. I think your teacher just marked it wrong because you forgot to show steps.

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