What is the slope of the line passing through the following points: $(3,4),(4,2)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-02-28T20:03:25

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Slope of a line joining twp points $(x_1, y_1) and x_2, y_2)$ is given by the expression

$(y_2 -y_1)/(x_2 - x_1)$ . Using this formula the required slope would be $(2-4)/(4-3)$ = -2

What is the slope of the line passing through the following points: (3,4),(4,2) (3,4),(4,2) ?