You take the difference between any two y and divide by the difference in the corresponding x. The number should be the same always for a straight line. That's your slope. A fancy way of writing it is dy/dx
so: (10-2)/(3-1) = 8/2 = 4 (using the first two points)
or: (26-2)/(7-1) = 24/6 = 4 (using the first and the last)
try it out for other combinations. The answer is 4 every time.
The answer is A.) 3x-7y and -7y+3x
This is due to "3x" implies the value is positive, or "+3x", and -7y remains -7y.
So, we have 3x-7y and -7y+3x.
I hope this helps!
so we have a table of values, with x,y coordinates, so let's use any two of those points to get the slope of the table and use the point-slope form to get its equation
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