SOLUTION: in algebra 1 how do you find the slope?

Question 244117: in algebra 1 how do you find the slope?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Depends on what you know.

If you are given two points, then use the slope formula:

Where

and

are the coordinates of two given points.

If you are given an equation of the line, solve the equation for

to put the equation into slope intercept form, looking like this:

Then the slope is just the coefficient on

If you are given the slope of a line that is either parallel or perpendicular to the line whose slope you wish to determine, then use one of the following rules:

John

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