Question

Determine the slope for a function that has the following table

Answer 1

The slope is calculated as,

$\text{slope}=\frac{y2-y1}{x2-x1}$

Taking ( 8.5, 27) and (7.5, 17), we have,

$\text{slope}=\frac{27-17}{8.5-7.5}=\frac{10}{1}=10$