What is the slope of the line represented by the values in the table? x-10,2,3,7,20 and y-14,-2,0,8,34.

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Mikel Rychliski · Answer 1 · 2019-02-25T10:38:01+0000

The slope of a line can be calculated as follows:

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

Plug in any two pairs of coordinates from the table, for instance:

(14-(-2) )/(10-2)

This simplifies to 2, therefore, the slope of the line is 2.