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Question 3 What is the slope of the line that passes through the points (0.-7) and (-3, 0)?

User Mischinab
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Our y-intercept would be -7 as (0,-7) shows us the the y at this coordinate is -7

To get to (-3,0), we have to move our x-coordinate down 3.

Since we know we added 7 to the y-coordinate, we could do rise/run (7/-3) to get an answer of 2 and one third, which is our slope.

Answer: 2 1/3
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