Question

What is the slope of a vertical line?
A.0
B.1
C.-1
D. undefined

Answer 1

Remember the slope formula?

Answer 2

\[m = \frac{ y_{2}-y _{1} }{ x _{2}-x _{1} } \]

Answer 3

What happens when the numerator is 0?

Answer 4

And what happens when the denominator is 0?

Answer 5

The x values will give you the vertical line
The y values will give you a horizontal line

Answer 6

its 0?

Answer 7

a?

Answer 8

So if the denominator is 0 that will give you 0 as the answer?

Answer 9

im thinking either A or D?

Answer 10

Ok but let me ask you this then, what happens when you have a question as 1/0?

Answer 11

or 23051235239523/0 anything even check your calculator and see what it gives you

Answer 12

0

Answer 13

Plug 1 divided by 0, 1/0 in a calculator.

Answer 14

undefined

Answer 15

yes

Answer 16

ok thanks