How do you find the slope of the line through points (5,1) (8,9)?

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How do you find the slope of the line through points (5,1) (8,9)?

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-06T15:40:05

The slope between $(5, 1)$ $(5,1)$ and $(8, 9)$ $(8,9)$ is $\frac{8}{3}$ $8/3$ .

Explanation:

Given the points $(x_{1}, y_{1})$ $(x_1,y_1)$ and $(x_{2}, y_{2})$ $(x_2,y_2)$ , the formula for finding the slope is $m = \frac{y_{2} - y_{1}}{x_{2} - x_{1}}$ $m=(y_2-y_1)/(x_2-x_1)$ .

Your points are $(5, 1)$ $(5,1)$ and $(8, 9)$ $(8,9)$ . We can plug that into our formula.

$m = \frac{9 - 1}{8 - 5} = \frac{8}{3}$ $m=(9-1)/(8-5)=8/3$

Typically, slope is left in a fraction, but you could venture to say the slope is $2 . ¯ 6$ $2.bar6$ .

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