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What is the slope of the line that contains the points (8, 4) and (−4, 8)?

3
−3
one third
negative one third

User Jelly Ama
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Answer: negative one third

What is the slope of the line that contains the points (8, 4) and (−4, 8)? 3 −3 one-example-1
User Bob Sanders
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Answer:

-1/3

Step-by-step explanation:

There's a formula that I'll use to find the slope - it's called the slope formula.


\sf{m=(y_2-y_1)/(x_2-x_1)}

Plug in the data:


\sf{m=(8-4)/(-4-8)}\\\\\sf{m=(4)/(-12)

Simplify:


\sf{m=-(4)/(12)}


\sf{m=-(1)/(3)}

Hence, the slope is negative one-third.

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