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What’s the slope for x<-3

User Mike Graf
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Answer:As you can see, this line is vertical! It goes directly up. We know that because the equation says that X is equal to -3. It is telling us that no matter what the Y value is, X will be -3.

Explanation:

The equation to find slope is to take two points

(A,B) and (C,D) and to do the following equation: D−B

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C−A

So, let's take two points. Let's say that Y is equal to 3 and 2. In that case, since X is always -3, our points would be (−3,2) and (−3,3).

Now, let's substitute into our formula.

3−2 1 1

------ = ----- = ---

3 (−3) (subtract) -3 + 3 0

As you can see, the final slope is 1/0

. If you put that into your calculator, it will come out as undefined, because any number divided by zero is undefined. And so your slope for any vertical line is undefined.

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