What is the slope of (9,4) and (5,-3)?

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Answer 1 · 2018-05-19T16:33:36

The slope of (9,4) and (5,-3) is #7/4# or #1##3/4#

The slope formula is:

#(y2-y1)/(x2-x1)#

So our values for those numbers are:
X1 - 9
Y1 - 4
X2 - 5
Y2 - -3

So let plug numbers in:

#(-3-4)/(5-9)#

Doing the math, we get

#-7/-4#

So when we get both negative on both the numerator and denominal, we flip the sign to positive thus our answer being

#7/4# or #1##3/4#