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Please Answer! I have been working on this for an hour and can't get it! Given A (4,2) and B (-1,y), what is y when the slope of AB is -7/5?
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Please Answer! I have been working on this for an hour and can't get it!

Given A (4,2) and B (-1,y), what is y when the slope of AB is -7/5?

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Answer: y= 9

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User Wthamira
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A = (4, 2)
B = (- 1, y)

We know that the slope is -7/5 which is rise/run

Thankfully the run is 5 which is the exact distance from 4 to -1 so we would need to apply -7 to 2 which would be 5
The answer is
B = (- 1, 5)
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