Which is the slope of a vertical line?
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if you try to use the slope formula you will get a number over 0 which is not possible and therefore it is undefined
thank you very much !!!
anytime, would you like me to show you a way to remember your slopes
ok in case you want to learn it the fast way
|dw:1405437778112:dw|is a line goes up then the slope is positive the + sign underneath the line reminds us that the line above is going up, we read lines from left to right
|dw:1405437848970:dw|if a line goes down, the slope is negative
|dw:1405437872576:dw|vertical line is undefined that is what the u reminds us
|dw:1405437901200:dw|horizontal line across is zero slope the two little 0 reminds us about that
|dw:1405437938076:dw|this is called slope guy and he reminds us of all of the 4 possible slopes
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