Question

What is the slope of the line that contains the point (-1,8) and (5,-4) answer.com?

Answer 1

THE SLOPE IS -2



if we have the coordinates of two points on a line, we can find the slope with this formula:

`s = (y2 - y1)/(x2 -x1) = (y1 - y2)/(x1 - x2)`
so the slope is

`(8 - ( - 4))/( - 1 - 5) = (12)/( - 6) = - 2`
the answer is -2



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