Question

a problem asks the students to find the slope of the line that passes through the points (-8,38), and (8,-42) what is the slope of the line

Answer 1

\[m=\frac{ \Delta y }{ \Delta x }=\frac{ y _{2}-y _{1} }{ x _{2}-x _{1} }=\frac{ -42-38 }{ 8-(-8) }=-5\]