Question

What is the slope of the line that passes through the points (3, –1) and (–2, –5)?

Answer 1

Try to use the following equation, where m is the gradient (slope of the line), y2=y-coordinate of second point, x2=x-coordinate of second point, x1=x-coordinate of first point and y1=y-coordinate of first point.

\[m=\frac{ y_2-y_1 }{ x_2-x_1 }\]