Slope of a Graphed Line

A line passes through the ordered pairs (4, 1) and (2, 8).  What is its slope?

• m = -2/7

• m = 2/7

• m = 7/2

• m = -7/2

Find the slope of the line that passes through the points (2, 4) and (6, 12)

• 1/2

• -1/2

• 2

• -2

What is the slope of the line that passes through the following points:
(7, 10) and (10, 9).

• -1

• -1/3

• 4

• 3

What is the slope of the line that passes through the following points:
(9, 3) and (7, 8).

• 6

• 3

• -5/2

• 6

What is the slope that passes through the following two points:  (2, 9) and (1, 6)

• -3

• 4

• 3

• -4

Find the slope of the line that passes through (7, 4) and (5, 5).

• -1/2

• 2

• -1

• 1/3

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What type of slope?

• undefined

• positive slope

• negative slope

• zero slope

What type of slope?

• negative

• positive

• zero slope

• downward slope

Find the slope of the line going through the points (3,-9) and (3,5).

• -14/1

• 4/6

• 1/14

• undefined