SOLUTION: What is the slope of the line passing through the points (2,0) and (5,24)?

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Question 172492: What is the slope of the line passing through the points (2,0) and (5,24)?
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hahaWe are trying to find equation of form y=ax+b, where a is slope, and b is intercept, which passes through points (x1, y1) = (2, 0) and (x2, y2) = (5, 24).
Slope a is .
Intercept is found from equation , or . From that,
intercept b is , or .

y=(8)x + (-16)

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