Question

Which of the following is the slope between the points (-6, 0)and (2, -9)?

Answer 1

explain how i can find the slope between it please ?

Answer 2

-9/8

Answer 3

difference of the y co-ordinates to the difference of the x co-ordinates
0-(-9)/-6-2

Answer 4

Slope also known as gradient can be found with the following formula,
Given 2 points, (x1,y1) and (x2,y2)

\[\frac{y1-y2}{x1-x2} or \frac{y2-y1}{x2-x1}\]

Answer 5

to find x i should plug in 0 for y ? & the opposite to find y ?

Answer 6

slope is delta y over delta x.

so you subtract one y co-ordinate from the other and do the same for the x. The difference in y is placed over the x.

Be sure you are subtracting in the correct order!

For example:

(0 - 9)/(- 6- 2) is correct

(-9 - 0)/(-6 - 2) is not

Answer 7

thanks!