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mary was told that a line goes through points (1,3) and (6, -2) and has a slope of 3 explain why the informatio mary was given cannot be correct

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(\stackrel{x_1}{1}~,~\stackrel{y_1}{3})\qquad (\stackrel{x_2}{6}~,~\stackrel{y_2}{-2}) ~\hfill \stackrel{slope}{m}\implies \cfrac{\stackrel{rise} {\stackrel{y_2}{-2}-\stackrel{y1}{3}}}{\underset{run} {\underset{x_2}{6}-\underset{x_1}{1}}}\implies \cfrac{-5}{5}\implies -1

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