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A student found the slope of a line that passes through the points (-4, -7) and (2, -2) to be 5/6. what mistake did he make?

A. He calculated the run over the rise.
B. He used the reciprocal of the slope.
C. He forgot the negative sign.
D. He did not make a mistake. That is the correct slope.

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D. He made no mistake because point-slope formula states that (y2-y1)/(x2-x1) = slope
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