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Brand a costs less per load because b is more expensive per load
The slope is negative because it is going at a downward angle or otherwise a negative path
The answer is 2, simply because you need to make that negative sign a positive sign. To do that you will need to flip the numerator and denominator. Meaning that it will be 4/1 now. By doing this your exponent became positive! So if your teacher just wanted you just rewrite it, it would be (4/1)^1/2, but if you were to evaluate that, it would be 2