Question

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a. Consider the points A(2, 3) and B(0, 6) and the line segment, AB, between them. What
is the slope of this line segment?

Answer 1

`A(\stackrel{x_1}{2}~,~\stackrel{y_1}{3})\qquad B(\stackrel{x_2}{0}~,~\stackrel{y_2}{6})~\hfill \stackrel{slope}{m}\implies \cfrac{\stackrel{rise} {\stackrel{y_2}{6}-\stackrel{y1}{3}}}{\underset{run} {\underset{x_2}{0}-\underset{x_1}{2}}} \implies \cfrac{3}{-2}\implies -\cfrac{3}{2}`