Question

8th grade mathDraw a line representing the rise and a line representing the run of the line. State the slope of the line in simplest form. Slope of the line:

Answer 1

We can draw the following lines representing the rise and run of the given graph:

By taking any points you want, for instance with (0, 7) and (4, -3) we got the graph you can see in the above figure. The slope of a line "m" is given by the following formula:

$m=\frac{\text{rise}}{\text{run}}$

Where the rise is calculated by taking the difference between the y-coordinates of two points and the run by taking the difference in the x-coordinates, then we get:

rise = 7 - (-3) = 7 + 3 = 10

run = 4 - 0 = 4

Then, the slope of the line is

m = 10/4 = 5/2

slope = 5/2