How do you find a slope of a line using only two points??

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Its the difference between the y- values divided by the distance between the corresponding x values. Or its sometimes called rise / run.

Aske Doerge answered Oct 13, 2019

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The formula to use is :

( y_(2)-y_(1) )/(x_(2)-x_(1))

where the two coordinates are in the format (x1, y1) and (x2, y2)

DianaBG answered Oct 18, 2019

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