Question

Find the slope of the line that passes through the pair of points.

(1, 7), (10, 1)

Answer 1

Okay! So the formula for slope is \[\frac{ y _{2} -y _{1}}{ x _{2} -x _{1}}\]

Answer 2

Do you know what the next step is?

Answer 3

I see that you closed the question. For all the google users out there, here is the rest of the problem.

y2=1 Why? Because 1 is the second number of the second pair of points. y1= 10 Why? Because ts the first number of the second pair of points.

1-10=-9
x2=7 Why? Because 7 is the second number of the first pair of points. x1=1. Why? Because 1 is the first number of the first pair of points.
7-1=6

Now, we have \[\frac{ -9 }{ 6}\]

Answer 4

Therefore, the slope is -1.5