Question

What is the slope of the line that contains the point (-1,8) and (5,-4) answer.com?

Answer 1

THE SLOPE IS -2



if we have the coordinates of two points on a line, we can find the slope with this formula:
$s = \frac{y2 - y1}{x2 -x1} = \frac{y1 - y2}{x1 - x2}$
so the slope is
$\frac{8 - ( - 4)}{ - 1 - 5} = \frac{12}{ - 6} = - 2$
the answer is -2



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