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Find the slope of the line.

Find the slope of the line.-example-1

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The points we can clearly see are (-2,-2) and (0,-3). You have to rise up 2 points and got to the left 4, so the rise over run is 2 over -4. Simplify this to -1/2, so the slope is negative 1/2.
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Answer:

The slope of the line is
-(1)/(2)

Explanation:

To know the slope of a line we can have the equation or to know points of the line. In this case from the graph we can get to points (-4,-1) and (0,-3). Having this and using the equation to calculate the slope, we have:


m=(y2-y1)/(x2-x1)

Defining:


(x1=-4,y1=-1) and
(x2=0,y2=-3)

Replacing this values in the initial equation, this is:


m=(-3-(-1))/(0-(-4))


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

The slope of the line is
-(1)/(2)

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