Question

find the slope that passes throught the pair of points (4,4),(8,-2)

Answer 1

The slope between two points is given by:

$m=\frac{y_2-y_1}{x_2-x_1}$

Then:

$\begin{gathered} m=\frac{-2-4}{8-4} \\ =-\frac{6}{6} \\ =-1 \end{gathered}$

Therefore, the slope between the points is -1.