Question

A passenger rode the subway 2 blocks west and then 10 blocks south. If all the blocks are the same length, what is the value of the slope of the line from where the passenger began to where he finished?

Answer 1

make a drawn about this ...

Answer 2

old question but will answer so this can be closed

using the image drawn above, simply calculate rise/run where rise is the change in the y-direction and run is the change in the x direction. note that, since he's going left and downards, both the rise and run values should be negative.