Question

What is the slope of the line shown?

Answer 1

Answer: y = -1/4x + 5.5

Slope formula is as follows: m = y2 - y1 / x2 - x1

7 - 6 / - 2 + 6

Since our line goes down we have a negative slope.

This gives us a slope of: m = - 1/4

The last number in our slope formula states how high/low we start on the y axis. Looking at our graph im assuming we start at 5.5

Answer 2

-
`(1)/(4)`

Explanation:

(
`x_(1)` ,
`y_(1)` )

(
`x_(2)` ,
`y_(2)` )

m =
`(y_(2) -y_(1) )/(x_(2) -x_(1) )`

~~~~~~~~~

( - 2, 6 )

( 2, 5 )

m =
`(6-5)/(-2-2)` = -
`(1)/(4)`