What is the slope of the line passing through the following points: $(- 7, - 2), (1, 6)$ $(-7,-2), (1,6)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-05-07T07:21:11

gradient = m = 1

Slope of a line is the gradient.

Gradient
= rise/run
= change in y / change in x
= $\frac{(- 2) - (6)}{(- 7) - 1}$ $((-2) - (6)) / ((-7) - 1 )$
= $\frac{- 8}{- 8}$ $(-8) / (-8)$
= 1

Yeap so the gradient is 1 hooray!!

What is the slope of the line passing through the following points: (-7,-2), (1,6) (−7,−2),(1,6) (-7,-2), (1,6) ?