SOLUTION: What is the slope of the line through (-5,2) and (6,7) in the standard (x,y) coordinate plane?

Question 201530: What is the slope of the line through (-5,2) and (6,7) in the standard (x,y) coordinate plane?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Note:

is the first point

and

is the second point

.

Start with the slope formula.

Plug in , , , and

Subtract from to get

Subtract from to get

So the slope of the line that goes through the points

and

is

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