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Which slope is shallower a slope of -9 or a slope of -3.

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Answer:

Shallower ---> deeper slope

Hence a steeper slope is -9

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Answer:

-3 has a shallower slope

Explanation:

the higher the absolute value of the slope is, the steeper the line

for example, if the slope of a line is -100 and the slope of another line is 2, the slope of -100 is steeper because it's absolute value is 100 which is larger than 2

User David Metcalfe
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