Question

I need someone to explain slopes to me. I have a couple math questions that involve slopes and I do not understand them at all or how to even go about starting to figure them out.

Answer 1

Sure whats your question I love slopes

Answer 2

To calculate the slope of a line you need only two points from that line, (x1, y1) and (x2, y2). The equation used to calculate the slope from two points is: On a graph, this can be represented as: There are three steps in calculating the slope of a straight line when you are not given its equation. Step One: Identify two points on the line.
Step Two: Select one to be (x1, y1) and the other to be (x2, y2).
Step Three: Use the slope equation to calculate slope.

So from that information can you give two points from the line given on your graph?

Answer 3

The points wold be the marking where the dots meet up

Answer 4

Now wehave our points -2,2(x1,y1) and -2,4 (x2,y2) Do you understand where im getting this from?

Answer 5

Yes! I understand. The picture really helped.

Answer 6

Yay good okay next step making the slope

Answer 7

So we are ready to calculate the slope using the equation for a slope: our points are -2,2 and -2,4 so... first 2 - 4 = ? and -2-2= ?

Answer 8

2/-4

Answer 9

Hope that helped :3