Question

Find the slope of the line passing through the points (8,-4) and (4, -8).

Answer 1

Answer:

slope equals 1

Step-by-step explanation:

To do this you would need to do an equation that is $\frac{y_{2}-y_{1} }{x_{2}-x_{1}}$ so in this case -8 would be y2 and -4 would be y1 and 4 would be x2 and 8 would b e x1 so if you plug it into the equation we would get $\frac{-8-(-4)}{4-8}$ and if we simplify we get $\frac{-4}{-4}$ which simplifies to 1 so the slope would equal 1

Answer 2

Answer:

1

Step-by-step explanation:

We can find the slope using

m= ( y2-y1)/(x2-x1)

   = ( -8 - -4)/( 4 - 8)

   =  ( -8 +4)/( 4 - 8)

   = -4 / -4

   = 1