SOLUTION: How do you get the slop of a line?

Question 29456: How do you get the slop of a line?
Answer by Nate(3500) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
you get it by this equation:
m=(first y - second y)/(first x - second x)
so in the ordererd pair: (1,2) and (3,4)
m=(2 - 4)/(1 - 3)=-2/-2=1

How do you pick which is the first x and y?
as long as you decide what your using for your first x, your first y is the y value in the ordered pair
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