Question

Please explain this...
http://hotmath.com/util/hm_flash_movie.html?movie=/learning_activities/interactivities/triangleSlopeRatio.swf&return_to=Geometry%20Activities&title=Slope%20Triangles

Answer 1

http://hotmath.com/util/hm_flash_movie.html?movie=/learning_activities/interactivities/triangleSlopeRatio.swf&return_to=Geometry%20Activities&title=Slope%20Triangles

Answer 2

Do you know the definition of slope?

Answer 3

like, m=y2-y1/x2-x1?

Answer 4

What you have there is a teaching tool designed to help you understand that slope is a ratio. As y and x change, so does the slope. The slope is the change in y divided by the change in x. The change in y is represented by dy and the change in x is represented by dx. Of course these values can also be found by subtracting y coordinates and x coordinates if you know the ordered pairs.

Answer 5

So would the relationship be how the ratio increases as the slope does?

Answer 6

The relationship would be how the slope increases or decreases are the ratio does.

Answer 7

Well yeah...thak you :)