SOLUTION: What is the slope of the line that passes through (-4, -2) and the origin?

SOLUTION: What is the slope of the line that passes through (-4, -2) and the origin?

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Question 152585: What is the slope of the line that passes through (-4, -2) and the origin?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Note: The origin is the point (0,0)

Start with the slope formula.

Plug in , , ,

Subtract from to get

Subtract from to get

Reduce

So the slope of the line that goes through the points

and

is

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