How do you find the slope for (-5,3) and (12,3)?

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Answer 1 · 2018-06-11T18:23:30

Slope= $0$ $0$

Slope is given by

$(Deltay)/(Deltax)$

Where Delta ( $Delta$ ) is the Greek letter that means "change in".

Let's just see how much our $x$ changes by, and how much our $y$ changes by. Recall that coordinates are of the form ( $x,y$ ).

We now know that $Deltax=17$ and $Deltay=0$ .

Plugging into our expression for slope, we get

$0/17=color(blue)(0)$

Thus, our slope is zero. This makes sense, because what we have is a horizontal line, of which the slope is always zero.

Hope this helps!