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Find the slopes of the indicated sides of the quadrilateral. simplify your answer.

Find the slopes of the indicated sides of the quadrilateral. simplify your answer-example-1
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Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

Here, we want to find the slope of the line that contains the given points

Mathematically, we can calculate the slope of a line as follows given two points on the line:


\text{ m = }(y_2-y_1)/(x_2-x_1)

The values that have subscript 1 are for the first point while subscript 2 are for the second point

Thus, we have it that:


m\text{ = }(0-(-4))/(-4-(-2))\text{ = }(4)/(-2)\text{ = -2}

For the second one, we have it that:


m\text{ = }(2-(-2))/(2-4)\text{ = }(4)/(-2)\text{ = -2}

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