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

1 Answer
Dec 9, 2017

25

Explanation:

To recall, the equation of a slope is:

y2y1x2x1=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,

7583=25