Question

Having trouble with this one can someone teach me how to find the slope in this question. Try to help me learn it aswell. Its in the file down below (Find the Slope)

Answer 1

Hi there! The answer is -2.

We can find the slope of a formula by using the following formula:

$slope = \frac{change \: of \: y}{change \: of \: x} =\frac{y2 - y1}{x2 - x1}$
x2 and y2 don't mean squared, but the x and y coordinate of our second point.

First we need to find two points on the line. Ijn this particular case we have (-3, 3) and (1, -5). Now we can fill in the formula.

$slope = \frac{ - 5 - 3}{1 - - 3} = \frac{ - 8}{4} = - 2$

Therefore, the third answer is correct.
~ Hope this helps you!