What is the slope of the line passing through the points (−3, 4) and (4, −1)?

2 Answers
May 23, 2018

slope=(4-(-1))/(-3-4)=5/-7=-5/7

Explanation:

Note that the slope of the line passing through two point given by:

color(red)[slope=(y_2-y_1)/(x_2-x_1)

point 1 (x_1,y_1)=(4,-1)

point 2 (x_2,y_2)=(-3,4)

slope=(4-(-1))/(-3-4)=5/-7=-5/7

May 23, 2018

The slope of the line is -5/7.

Explanation:

The formula for finding the slope of the line passing two points is

m=(y_2-y_1)/(x_2-x_1)

Here m symbolizes the slope.

Let's consider, (x_1, y_1)=(-3, 4) and (x_2, y_2)=(4, -1)

Therefore,

m=(-1-4)/(4-(-3))

m=-5/7