Answer:
slope = 4
Step-by-step explanation:
Calculate the slope m using the slope formula
m = 
with (x₁, y₁ ) = (0, 0) and (x₂, y₂ ) = (3, 12) ← 2 points on the line
m =
=
= 4
Step 1. Type it into a Google search box or calculator. (You need to use a calculator anyway.) The result is
3177 4/9.
If you're doing this according to the Order of Operations, you do the multiplication and division left to right. This means the first calculation you do is
255/6 = 42.5
Next, you multiply by 672
42.5*672 = 28560
Then divide by 9
28560/9 = 3173 3/9
You continue by doing the division
37/9 = 4 1/9
And finish by adding the two results
3173 3/9 + 4 1/9 =
3174 4/9_____
If you're doing this by hand, you can recognize the first term as the product of two fractions, so is the product of numerators divided by the product of denominators.
(255*672)/(6*9)
Using your knowledge of divisibility rules, you can do the division 672/6 to simplify this to
(255*112)/9
Now, the first term and the second term have the same denominator, so you can add the numerators before you do the division.
(255*112 + 37)/9 = (28560 + 37)/9 = 28597/9
You end up having to do only two simple divisions, rather than 3 of them.
28597/9 = 3177 4/9
Consider the equation y = x^2. No matter what x happens to be, the result y will never be negative even if x is negative. Example: x = -3 leads to y = x^2 = (-3)^2 = 9 which is positive.
Since y is never negative, this means the inverse x = sqrt(y) has the right hand side never be negative. The entire curve of sqrt(x) is above the x axis except for the x intercept of course. Put another way, we cannot plug in a negative input into the square root function for this reason. This similar idea applies to any even index such as fourth roots or sixth roots.
Meanwhile, odd roots such as a cube root has its range extend from negative infinity to positive infinity. Why? Because y = x^3 can have a negative output. Going back to x = -3 we get y = x^3 = (-3)^3 = -27. So we can plug a negative value into the cube root to get some negative output. We can get any output we want, negative or positive. So the range of any radical with an odd index is effectively the set of all real numbers. Visually this produces graphs that have parts on both sides of the x axis.