What is the slope of the line passing through $(3,4); (-2,7)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-03-04T09:05:03

Slope is $-3/5$

Slope of a line passing through $(x_1,y_1)$ and $(x_2,y_2)$ is given by $(y_2-y_1)/(x_2-x_1)$ .

Hence, slope of a line passing through $(3,4)$ and $(-2,7)$ is given by $(7-4)/(-2-3)$ or $-3/5$

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