Question

Find the slope of the line on the graph. Write your answer as a fraction or a whole number, not a mixed number or decimal.

Answer 1

Answer: the slope is -1/2

Step-by-step explanation: The rise is -4. Easy to see from the y-intercept, 4 below the origin. The run is 8, again easy to see from the distance between the x-intercept at -8, 8 unite away from the origin.

So slope = rise/run -4/8 simplify (by LCM, 4) So you get slope = -1/2

Answer 2

-4/8

Explanation:

Using rise over run would give you -4/8. Since the rise is going downward four times the number would be negative. Since the run is going to the right 8 times it would be positive.