What is the slope of the line passing through the following points: $(-5, 2) , (-3, 1)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-21T18:58:07

$-1/2$

Find the slope by dividing the y coordinates' difference by the x coordinates' difference

$(y_2-y_1)/(x_2-x_1) rarr$ Formula for finding slope from 2 points

$(1-2)/(-3-(-5)) rarr$ Plug the numbers into the formula

$-1/2 rarr$ This is the slope

What is the slope of the line passing through the following points: (-5, 2) , (-3, 1) (-5, 2) , (-3, 1) ?