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The slope of the line is?I came up with 2 over 8 2/8. Do you reduce? Would it be 1 over 4?

The slope of the line is?I came up with 2 over 8 2/8. Do you reduce? Would it be 1 over-example-1
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The slope m of a line can be found by dividing the difference between two y-values by the difference between the respective x-values:


m=\frac{y_2-y_1_{}}{x_2-x_1}

We can use, for example, the first two points of the table. So we have:

x₁ = 1

x₂ = 3

y₁ = 2

y₂ = 10

Now, using those values in the above formula, we obtain:


m=(10-2)/(3-1)=(8)/(2)=4

Therefore, the slope of the line is 4.

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