Question

what is the slope of the line below? If necessary, enter enter your answer as a fraction in lowest terms

Answer 1

@amistre64 @JamesJ

Answer 2

1/3

Answer 3

@Will679 --> I did not get that. Please post your work. Thanks.

Answer 4

I got 6-3/ 12-6 ? :)

Answer 5

@Will679 From the OpenStudy Code of Conduct:

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Answer 6

It's okay :) Thanks I got it already :)

Answer 7

ok so what i did was just looked at eh picture and counted how many times you need to move ot the right form the negative x position and then i counted up from there and got 2/6 and then reduced that.... getting 1/3 hope taht wasnt' confusing it is kinda hard to type out how i did it...

Answer 8

The slope of a line is a constant rate of change.
Change as in the change in y over the change in x.

(-6,3) and (12,6)

slope = [ (6 - 3)]/[12 - (-6)]

Slope = ?
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@pleasehelpmeonmath --> Sign error here, I think: I got 6-3/ 12-6 ? :)

@Will679 Your intrepretation is at the core of understanding slope. It should produce a correct answer. I got 3/18 which is 1/6. Should it be 1/3?

Answer 9

haha actually just realized i counted wrong it shoudl be 1/6 :P haha thansk for correcting me :P

Answer 10

@Will679 --> I counted over 18 and then up 3 which would be 3/18. Leaving the answer at 3/18 in a slope problem makes more sense to me because the units over and units up are accurate.

Answer 11

Yeah i just counted over 6 and up one cuz it runs into the line then and you don't have to reduce then... @Directrix

Answer 12

not that reducing is hard in this circumstance.. :P