Question

What is the slope of the line that passes through the points (2, 8) and (6, 12)?

Answer 1

Yeah, where I live, to find the slope (or as we call it, the gradient), you just have to do the two y values subtracted from each other, over the two x values subtracted from each other. The important thing is to remember that if you subtract the first y value from the second (so, 12 - 8), you have to do the same thing for the x (6 - 2)

$\frac{12-8}{6-2}$ = $\frac{4}{4}$ = 1.

The slope is 1.