How do you find the slope of a line passing through (-2, 9) and (5, 3)?

1 Answer
Jun 29, 2017

The slope is -6/767.

Explanation:

The formula that we use to find the slope (represented by mm) is (rise)/(run)riserun. Rise is equal to y_2-y_1y2y1 and the run is equal to x_2-x_1x2x1. So, the actual formula is m=(y_2-y_1)/(x_2-x_1)m=y2y1x2x1.

(x_1, y_1)(x1,y1) and (x_2, y_2)(x2,y2) is equal to (-2, 9)(2,9) and (5, 3)(5,3) (the points can be the other way around like (5, 3)(5,3) and (-2, 9)(2,9)). then we can substitute the values into the formula like this:
m=(y_2-y_1)/(x_2-x_1)m=y2y1x2x1
m=(3-9)/(5-(-2))m=395(2)
m=-6/7m=67

Hope this helps you, mate.