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Please help (there are two parts to the question you have to graph the rise over run and then find the slope using the equation rise over run)

Please help (there are two parts to the question you have to graph the rise over run-example-1
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Consider the graph:

Let's graph the rise and the run

The red line is the run and the green line is the rise, see that run = 3 units and rise = 9 units, the slope will be


\text{slope=}\frac{\text{rise}}{\text{run}}

Therefore the slope will be


\text{slope}=(9)/(3)=3

Then the slope is 3.

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