What is the slope of (9,4) and (5,-3)?

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Answer 1 · 2018-05-19T16:33:36

The slope of (9,4) and (5,-3) is $\frac{7}{4}$ $7/4$ or $1$ $1$ $\frac{3}{4}$ $3/4$

The slope formula is:

$\frac{y 2 - y 1}{x 2 - x 1}$ $(y2-y1)/(x2-x1)$

So our values for those numbers are:
X1 - 9
Y1 - 4
X2 - 5
Y2 - -3

So let plug numbers in:

$\frac{- 3 - 4}{5 - 9}$ $(-3-4)/(5-9)$

Doing the math, we get

$- \frac{7}{- 4}$ $-7/-4$

So when we get both negative on both the numerator and denominal, we flip the sign to positive thus our answer being

$\frac{7}{4}$ $7/4$ or $1$ $1$ $\frac{3}{4}$ $3/4$