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How do you get the slope?

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Answer:

you get slope when you take 2 points from a graph and divide y₂ - y₁ by x₂ - x₁.

example: Compute the slope of the line between graph points (13,4) and (6,9).
y₂ - y₁ = 9 - 4 = 5,
x₂ - x₁ = 6 - 13 = -7,
so the slope is 5/-7
(five over negative seven)

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