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What is the slope of the line that contains the points origin and the point (3, -3)?

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Nov 22, 2016

Plug your numbers into a point-slope formula:

$m = \frac{y - y_{1}}{x - x_{1}}$ $m=(y-y_1)/(x-x_1)$

$m = \frac{- 3 - 0}{3 - 0}$ $m=(-3-0)/(3-0)$

$m = - 1$ $m = -1$

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