Science

Math

Humanities

... and beyond

Socratic Meta
Featured Answers

Topics

How do you find the slope for (-5,0) (0,-3)?

1 Answer

May 11, 2016

$m = - \frac{3}{5}$ $m=-3/5$

Explanation:

$slope : m$ $"slope : m"$

$A = (- 5, 0)$ $A=(-5,0)$
$A_{x} = - 5$ $A_x=-5$
$A_{y} = 0$ $A_y=0$

$B = (0, - 3)$ $B=(0,-3)$
$B_{x} = 0$ $B_x=0$
$B_{y} = - 3$ $B_y=-3$

$m = \frac{B_{y} - A_{y}}{B_{x} - A_{x}}$ $m=(B_y-A_y)/(B_x-A_x)$

$m = \frac{- 3 - 0}{0 + 5}$ $m=(-3-0)/(0+5)$

$m = - \frac{3}{5}$ $m=-3/5$

Related questions

See all questions in Slope

Impact of this question

2087 views around the world

You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License