you look at how much it goes up and call that the rise and how much it goes in the horizontal direction call the run. Slop is rise divided by run.
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This equation is in the slope-intercept form, y = mx + b, where the coefficient of x, m, is the slope and b is the y-intercept. Thus, in the equation y = 12x + 6, the slope is 12.
The equation to figure out a slope is y1 - y2 / x1 - x2. In (1,9) and (-3,16), 9 is y1 and 16 is y2. 1 is x1 and -3 is x2. Now you have -7/4, which is your slope!
if y2-y1=m x2-x1
to figure out if we're going to far on something or how long something has to be
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