Question

Find the slope of the line that goes through the points (-4,1) and (8,-5)

Answer 1

`(\stackrel{x_1}{-4}~,~\stackrel{y_1}{1})\qquad (\stackrel{x_2}{8}~,~\stackrel{y_2}{-5}) ~\hfill \stackrel{slope}{m}\implies \cfrac{\stackrel{rise} {\stackrel{y_2}{-5}-\stackrel{y1}{1}}}{\underset{run} {\underset{x_2}{8}-\underset{x_1}{(-4)}}} \implies \cfrac{-6}{8 +4}\implies {\Large \begin{array}{llll} -\cfrac{1}{2} \end{array}}`