What is the slope of the straight line through points $(3,5)$ and $(8,7)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-12-09T20:13:39

$2/5$

To recall, the equation of a slope is:

$(y2-y1)/(x2-x1)= Slope$ ---- equation 1

So here we have two points,
(3,5) will be point 1. 3 will be x1 and 5 will be y1
(8,7) will be point 2. 8 will be x2 and 7 will be y2

So plugging these in to equation 1 we have,

$(7-5)/(8-3) = 2/5$

What is the slope of the straight line through points (3,5)(3,5) and (8,7)(8,7)?