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Find the slope of the line please help​

Find the slope of the line please help​-example-1
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Answer:

m = -1/3

Explanation:

There are two ways that you can use to get this answer.

The first way is to use the graph. You can see that to get from Point A to Point B, the dots go over 1 and down 3. For the fraction, you put the amount that you go to the side (1) over the amount you go down (3) to get 1/3. Since the points go down gradually, the slope is negative, so 1/3 becomes -1/3.

The second way is to take the two points, (1, 4) and (2, 1) and subtract them. First, subtract the x-coordinate from Point B from Point A to get -1. Then do the same thing with the y-coordinates to get 3. Put the -1 over 3 because x comes before y, and you have your slope.

I hope this helped :)

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