What is the slope of (-3,3)(3,-3)?

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anonymous · Answer

What is the slope formula?

zepp · Answer

Equation to find the slope? Sounds familiar?

zepp · Answer

I'll leave @shandelman help you with this :)

anonymous · Answer

i'm stupid help lolz

zepp · Answer

shandel left.. :|

zepp · Answer

$$\large m=\frac{y_2-y_1}{x_2-x_1}$$
Have you seen this formula somewhere?

anonymous · Answer

Yes, but when it comes time to plug in the numbers I always get confused.

zepp · Answer

Let me de-confuse

*Deconfuses*

zepp · Answer

In fact what you have to do is to label these points
Point 1: (-3,3) $\rightarrow$ $(x_1,y_1)$
Point 2: (3,-3) $\rightarrow$ $(x_2,y_2)$

anonymous · Answer

Every point is (x,y).  I remember that it's in alphabetical order.  The nice thing about the slope formula is that it doesn't matter which is Point 1 and which point is Point 2 as long as you're consistent.

The formula says to take the y values (the second numbers) and subtract them, take the x values (the first numbers) and subtract them, and then divide your two answers.

zepp · Answer

$\large (x_1,y_2)=(-3,3)$
$\large (x_1,y_2)=(3,-3)$

Exactly what @shandelman said.

anonymous · Answer

ahh okay thank you very much guys!

zepp · Answer

Got it? :D