Question

The rate of change is: -4 -1 1 4

Answer 1

the slope goes by several names

• average rate of change

• rate of change

• deltaY over deltaX

• Δy over Δx

• rise over run

• gradient

• constant of proportionality

however, is the same cat wearing different costumes.

to get the slope of a straight line we only need two points off of it, hmmm let's use from the table (-1 , 13) and (2 , 1)

$(\stackrel{x_1}{-1}~,~\stackrel{y_1}{13})\qquad (\stackrel{x_2}{2}~,~\stackrel{y_2}{1}) \\\\\\ \stackrel{slope}{m}\implies \cfrac{\stackrel{rise} {\stackrel{y_2}{1}-\stackrel{y1}{13}}}{\underset{run} {\underset{x_2}{2}-\underset{x_1}{(-1)}}}\implies \cfrac{-12}{2+1}\implies \cfrac{-12}{3}\implies -4$