What is the slope of the line between $(24,32)$ and $(16,-5)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-01-13T16:16:15

The slope
$m=(37)/(8)$

The points are
$(24,32) = color(blue)(x_1,y_1$

$(16 , -5) = color(blue)(x_2,y_2$

The slope is found using formula :

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

$m=(-5-32)/(16 - 24)$

$m=(-37)/(-8)$

What is the slope of the line between (24,32) (24,32) and (16,-5) (16,-5) ?