How do you find the slope of (3,-4) and (-2,-14)?

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-07T22:17:41

The slope is $2$ .

Here's how I did it:

To find the slope of two points, we use the formula $"(change in y)"/"(change in x)"$ or $(y_2-y_1)/(x_2-x_1)$ :

$(-14-(-4))/(-2-3)$

And now we simplify:
$(-14+4)/-5$

$(-10)/-5$

$2$

The slope is $2$ .

Hope this helps!