Question

What is the slope of the line that passes through the points (2, 8) and (6, 12)?

a. –5


b. 5

c. 1

d. –1

Answer 1

Yeah, where I live, to find the slope (or as we call it, the gradient), you just have to do the two y values subtracted from each other, over the two x values subtracted from each other. The important thing is to remember that if you subtract the first y value from the second (so, 12 - 8), you have to do the same thing for the x (6 - 2)


`(12-8)/(6-2)` =
`(4)/(4)` = 1.

The slope is 1.