Question

1. What is the slope of the line ?

-2

-1

1

1

Answer 1

you will have to do rise over run for insane 2/-1 which your answer will be -2

Answer 2

The slope of a line is measured by the “rise”/“run.” The rise is your “y” coordinate, and the run is your “x” coordinate.

Looking at this graph, if we start at (0,0) and move 1 point to the left, our new coordinates are (1,-2). If we move 1 point to the left again, our new coordinates are (2,-4). We only need two sets of coordinates to calculate our slope.

The formula to calculate the slope of a line is:

(y2 - y1)/(x2-x1)

Now, all we have to do is plug in our coordinates, so:

(-4 - -2)/(2 - 1)
(-2)/(1) = -2


The slope of the line is -2.