Question

What is the slope of the line that contains these points?
x: 8 11 14 17
y: 36 12 -12 -36
please help
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Answer 1

The slope is (-8). The way you can do this is by minusing 36 from 12 which is 24. Then minus 8 from 11 which is -3. Then divide 24 by -3 which is -8.