Question

What is the slope of the line below

Answer 1

So the points are

(-3,0) and (3, -2)

slope is (diff of y)/(diff of x)

so lets look at ys? 0 and -2, how many steps apart are they (-2)

so lets look at xs? -3, 3, how many steps apart are they (+6)

-2/6 = -1/3 slope