Question

Draw a graph, and label and scale both axes. Plot the points (-2, 3) and (1, -5), clearly labeling them.

Answer 1

Explanation:

First, we draw the graph, label the x and y-axis. Then we plot the points given.

To plot the point (-2, 3), we first move to units to the left from the origin and the 3 units up as sketched below

Similarly for (1, -5), we have

We moved one unit to the right and 5 units down.

To find the slope, we take the vertical distance and the horizontal distance and then the slope will be

slope vertical distance / horizontal distance

Therefore the slope is

`Slope=-(8)/(3)`