find the slope of the line that passes through the give points (-7,-1) and (-1,-2)

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Chapter11: Graphs
Section11.4: Understand Slope Of A Line
Problem 11.76TI: Find the slope of the line through the pair of points: (—3. 4) and (2, —1).
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find the slope of the line that passes through the give points

(-7,-1) and (-1,-2)

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Step1: We have given points  (-7,-1) and (-1,-2) passes through the line .

Here, x coordinates and y coordinates are x1 = -7, y1=-1, x2=-1 , y2=-2 .

 

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Step2: We will find slope of line  by using the formula for slope of line .

Plugging the valuse of x1, x2, y1, y2  in formula .

 

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