How do you find the slope of (2,4) and (1,2)?

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Answer 1 · 2018-06-06T01:50:34

Slope of a line through the given points is $2$ .

The slope of a line that passes through these two points is:

$m = (y_2-y_1)/(x_2-x_1)$

We are given:

$(x_1,y_1) = (2,4)$

and

$(x_2,y_2) = (1,2)$

We get

$m = (2-4)/(1-2) = (-2)/(-1) = 2$