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What is the slope for (1, -5) and (4, 1)?

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The answer is 2. The y is the numerator so you can do -5-1 and it is -6. Then x which is the denominator you will have to do 1-4 which is -3. Last divide -6 by -3 which is 2. So the slope is 2.

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