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What is the slope of the line that contains these points?

What is the slope of the line that contains these points?-example-1
User Jason La
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The slope can be found with two sets of points

The points can be any points, but in this case I choose the point (-1,10) and (1,2)

Slope =
(y2-y1)/(x2-x1) =(10-2)/(-1-1) =(8)/(-2) =-4

The slope of the line that contains these points is -4.

Hope that helps!

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