What is the slope of the line that contains the points (-1, -1) and (3, 15)?

1 Answer
Jun 12, 2018

m=4

Explanation:

The equation to find slope is

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

It does not matter which coordinate is used as 1 or 2 as long as there is consistency.

So let’s plug in the coordinates into the equation:

m=(-1-15)/(-1-3)

m=(-16)/-4

m=4

Hope this helps!