What is the slope of the line passing through the following points: $(-2,-1) , (5, 1)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-07-24T16:29:33

$m = 2/7$

Slope is defined as $"the change in y"/"the change in x"$

The formula to find this is: $m = (y_2 - y_1)/(x_2 -x_1)$

$m = (1- (-1))/(5- (-2)) = 2/7$

If we had subtracted the other way round we would have ended up with
$m =(-2)/(-7)" but this also simplifies to " 2/7$

What is the slope of the line passing through the following points: (-2,-1) , (5, 1) (-2,-1) , (5, 1) ?