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What is the slope of the line? ​

What is the slope of the line? ​-example-1
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to get the slope of any straight line, we simply need two points off of it, let's use those two in the picture below.


(\stackrel{x_1}{-1}~,~\stackrel{y_1}{-3})\qquad (\stackrel{x_2}{3}~,~\stackrel{y_2}{4}) ~\hfill \stackrel{slope}{m}\implies \cfrac{\stackrel{rise} {\stackrel{y_2}{4}-\stackrel{y1}{(-3)}}}{\underset{run} {\underset{x_2}{3}-\underset{x_1}{(-1)}}} \implies \cfrac{4 +3}{3 +1} \implies {\Large \begin{array}{llll} \cfrac{7 }{ 4 } \end{array}}

What is the slope of the line? ​-example-1
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