Question

Which of the following describes the slope of a line that rises from left to right?



positive

negative

zero

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Answer 1

Is the slope of that line positive or negative?

Answer 2

first, do you know how to find slope?

Answer 3

slope is defined as rise/run

Answer 4

The slope is positive, because when x increases, y does to. This means you have a positive correlation and the slope is positive. Think of it like this, you're hiking up the mountain, so you're going up in elevation and adding a positive number to your elevation. If you hike down a mountain, you're decreasing in elevation, or subtracting from your original elevation, so it's negative.