Question

Price of Plums8What is the slope ofthe line?76[?]Price ($)32Give your answer asa fraction in simplestform.11 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9Number of Plums

Answer 1

SOLUTION

The slope of a line is define as a changes in x with a coreeepounding changes in y

Hence

$\text{Slope}=\frac{\text{change in y}}{change\text{ in x}}=\frac{\Delta y}{\Delta x}$

Slope is given by the formula

$\text{Slope}=\frac{y_2-y_1}{x_2-x_1}$

From the graph given in the image, we have the following points

$\begin{gathered} (0,0) \\ \text{and } \\ (4,1) \end{gathered}$

Where

$\begin{gathered} x_1=0,x_2=4 \\ y_1=0,y_2=1_{} \end{gathered}$

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