Positive Slopes from a Graph

Find the slope of the graphed line.

What is the slope in the picture?

• Positive

• Negative

• Zero

• Undefined

What type of slope?

• zero slope

• undefined

• negative

• positive

Find the slope of the line below using rise/run.

• 3

• 2

• 1

Find the slope:

• 3/4

• 4/3

• -3/4

• -4/3

What is a positive slope?

• ->->->->->->->->->->->->

• <-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-

• When both x and y increase and the slope goes up

• ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Find the slope

• 2

• -2

• 1/2

• -1/2

A positive slope ​ (a)   left to right.

• increases

• decreases

Find the slope

• 4/5

• 5/4

• -5/4

• -4/5

find the slope