Question

Finding the Slope of a Line from a Table

What is the slope of the linear function represented in
the table?
y
o
.

Answer 1

m = rise / run = 1/7

Explanation:

Recall that the slope of a line is m = rise / run.

Here we look at x first (to calculate the run): x begins at -7 and ends at 0. Thus, the run is 0 - (-7), or 7.

Now look at how y behaves (find the rise): y begins at 0 and ends at 1. Thus, the rise is 1.

Therefore the slope of the line connecting the two poings given is

m = rise / run = 1/7