Question

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What is the slope of the line that passes through the points (-5,-7) and (4,-1) ? Write your answer in simplest form .

Answer 1

2/3

Explanation:

To get the slope, you do (y2-y1)/(x2-x1).

You can also remember it as rise/run, as it is the change in y/change in x.

You can make either coordinate 1 or 2, just keep it consistent with the rest of the problem.

For this, I chose (-5, -7) to be 2, and (4, -1) to be 1.

Following the formula for slope, (y2-y1)/(x2-x1), you put the values in: (-7-{-1})/(-5-4).

-7 minus -1 is -6 and -5 minus 4 is -9.

Thus you get -6/-9. Don’t forget to simplify! A negaive divided by a negative is positive, and both 6 and 9 can be divided by 3. 3 goes into 6 TWO times and into 9 THREE times.

So, you get a positive fraction, 2/3.

Hope this helped.