SOLUTION: Find the slope of the line through (0,6) and (8,0). I think to start I am supposed to take 0-6/8-0=-6/8 Then I am stuck.

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Question 292215: Find the slope of the line through (0,6) and (8,0).
I think to start I am supposed to take
0-6/8-0=-6/8
Then I am stuck.
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20055)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Find the slope of the line through (0,6) and (8,0).
I think to start I am supposed to take

Then I am stuck.

No you're not stuck, you have the answer, 
except you need to reduce the fraction 
 to .  That is the 
slope of the line, 

The negative sign tells us that the line slopes
downward to the right, the 3/4 tells us that if we could
slide down the line to the right, we would move downward 
only 3/4 as fast as we would move to the right:



Edwin
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