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What is the slope of the hypotenuses of the triangles in simplest form?

What is the slope of the hypotenuses of the triangles in simplest form?-example-1
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You can pick any two points on a line to find the slope of that line.

Let's choose (3, 1) and (6,2)

The slope formula is
slope = (y_2-y_1)/(x_2-x_1)

Plugging in our points we get the slope as


Slope = (2 - 1)/(6 - 2) = \boxed{\bf{(1)/(3)}}

The slope of the hypotenuses are 1/3.
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