Question

What is the slope of the line that passes through these points: `(- 40.34,5.5) \text{ and } ( 0.34,3.6)`?

Answer 1

The slope is the difference of the `y` values divided by the difference of the `x` values

Given these points `(-40.34, 5.5)` and `(0.34, 3.6)`

The first `y` value (`y_1`) is `5.5`

The second `y` value (`y_2`) is `3.6`

The first `x` value (`x_1`) is `-40.34`

The second `x` value (`x_2`) is `0.34`

`m=(Delta y)/(Delta x)=(y_2-y_1)/(x_2-x_1)`

`color(white)m=(3.6-5.5)/(0.34--40.34)`

`color(white)m~~-0.0467`