I need help with this question, I need to find the slope and figure out if it’s a negative,positive,zero, or undefined

Mathematics

1 answer:

DENIUS [597]3 years ago

3 0

Well I would say that you would probably want to look at the chart and add the points together on that X to Y Coordinate chart. If it slopes into lower numbers it’s negative. If it goes higher in numbers it’s positive. Then if it’s to 0 then it’s zero. I can’t remember what undefined is

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