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yvonne and her friends held a bake sale to benefit a shelter for homeless people. the friends sold 22 cakes on the first day and 15 cakes on the second day of the bake sale. they collected $88 on the first day and $60 on the second day. Let x represent the number of cakes sold and y represent the amount of money made. find the slope of the line that would pass through the points given
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Why does the m stand for slope and b for y intercept?
NOBODY know for sure! Some say it is because the word slope used to be called a modulus and m is for modulus, but that has not been proven. Many historians have tried to answer this question, but all their theories have been proven false. You can come up with many other reasons, but I would not go down that slippery slope. ---Addendum to answer: Descartes was french. In french, monter means "to climb." Most websites will cite this as the reason that m stands for slope. M stands for slope for either the reason that it stands for the original word modulus of slope, or the French word monter, meaning to climb, but no one really knows for sure. B does not stand for anything due to the fact that in math terms- a, b, and c are usually used for constants while x, y, and z are variables, and m, n, and p are parameters. - Paladin89
What another word for roof slope?
Pitch
What is another word for angle?
slant, slope, gradient?
What is another word for slope but beginning with G?
Gradient
Why is m used in the slope formula?
what we now call just the "slope" was once called the "modulus of slope", the word "modulus" being used in its sense of "number used to measure" (as in "Young's modulus").
