How do you find the slope for (-5,3) and (12,3)?

1 Answer
Jun 11, 2018

Slope=#0#

Explanation:

Slope is given by

#(Deltay)/(Deltax)#

Where Delta (#Delta#) is the Greek letter that means "change in".

Let's just see how much our #x# changes by, and how much our #y# changes by. Recall that coordinates are of the form (#x,y#).

We now know that #Deltax=17# and #Deltay=0#.

Plugging into our expression for slope, we get

#0/17=color(blue)(0)#

Thus, our slope is zero. This makes sense, because what we have is a horizontal line, of which the slope is always zero.

Hope this helps!