Question

What happens to the slope when the line gets close to horizontal?

Answer 1

It approaches zero. One way to see this is to observe that the slope equals the y value of the line when x = 1 if the line goes through the origin.

Answer 2

In the picture above, the two lines have slope 1 and 1/2 by that argument.

Answer 3

so if it goes up that way, its get closer to zero?

Answer 4

I'm not sure what you mean goes up.

Answer 5

typo, my bad. thanks for the help

Answer 6

no problem