Question

What is the slope of the line x = 4?

Answer:

Answer 1

Technically a math question...but I'll give you a hand!

First think of the other extreme - say y=4. This is a horizontal line. Remember, slope is equal to the rise over the run. For a horizontal line, there is 0 rise, no matter what your run is (because the y-value is never changing)! That makes the slope of a horizontal line 0.

Now pretend you start lifting the right side of this line up. As you lift it higher and higher, there's a larger and larger increase in rise for the same amount of run. In other words, slope is increasing, and it increases more the higher you lift that line.

Now x=4 refers to a vertical line. This is the other extreme, where you've lifted the line as high as it can go. In this case, the rise is extremely large (infinite, actually) for very little runl (0, actually). This means the slope is...?

Answer 2

What is the slope?? Matt101

Answer 3

Trying to get you to think of the answer :)

Reread what I wrote!

Answer 4

slope is infinity

Answer 5

but really you could also say it doesn't exist as slope is define by the change in x over the change in y and as there is no change in y it would mean taht you needed to devide by zero which is not allowed.