Question

Please help!

What is the slope of the graph?

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slope = -3
slope = -1/3
slope = 1/3
slope = 3

Answer 1

Use the formula y2-y2/x2-x1

Answer 2

look at your graph and get two points,
use the slope formula for calculating it's slope:\[m(slope)=\frac{ y _{2} -y _{1}}{ x _{2} -x _{1}}\]
HInt: since you graph is decreasing the slope should be negative.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

then do i just plug in the points thats shown on the graph to the slope equation??

Answer 5

yes,.

Answer 6

Look at your point on the y line...what is it on ? It will be negative, since it is coming down. How many points down does it come before it reaches the x axis ? That is your rise. Then once you get to the x line, you go to the right how many spaces ? That is your run

Answer 7

Okay I have a way that I usually do is using rise/run. Rise is the vertical axis and the run is the horizontal axis. We have to see how we can connect the y axis to the x axis. To do this we have to count how many spaces vertical and how many spaces horizontal we can reach together.

To go the x axis from the y axis we have to go downwards. So then we get -3 as our rise and as our run we get 1. Having the written way of rise/run=-3/1. To convert this to a decimal just divide the numerator by the denominator.

Answer 8

then would the answer be slope = -1/3?

Answer 9

-3/1 = -3 (your slope)

Answer 10

Wait. -3/1.

Answer 11

oh so its slope=-3?

Answer 12

Yes