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Find the slope of each line and tell what kind of slope each line illustrates?

Find the slope of each line and tell what kind of slope each line illustrates?-example-1
User Sam Coles
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Let's find the slope of the given line.

As you can see, two points are plotted. These are (-1,4) and (-3,-3).

The slope will be:


m=(-3-4)/(-3-(-1))\to m=(-7)/(-2)\to m=3.5

This is a positive slope. So the line will always grow.

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