Question

Find the slope of the line.

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3
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-1
-2
-3
-4
1 2 3 4
Simplify completely.
Slope
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Answer 1

to get the slope of any straight line, we simply need two points off of it, let's use the ones in the picture below

`(\stackrel{x_1}{-2}~,~\stackrel{y_1}{0})\qquad (\stackrel{x_2}{2}~,~\stackrel{y_2}{2}) ~\hfill \stackrel{slope}{m}\implies \cfrac{\stackrel{rise} {\stackrel{y_2}{2}-\stackrel{y1}{0}}}{\underset{run} {\underset{x_2}{2}-\underset{x_1}{(-2)}}} \implies \cfrac{2 }{2 +2}\implies {\LARGE \begin{array}{llll} \cfrac{1}{2} \end{array}}`

Answer 2

1/2 as it goes up 1 unit and right 2 units