SOLUTION: how do you find the slope looking at an absolute value graph.

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Question 177454: how do you find the slope looking at an absolute value graph.
Answer by Fombitz(32388) About Me  (Show Source):
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The process is the same.
Find the change in y between two points and the change in x.
Divide those two to find the slope.
The absolute value graph will have two slopes:one for the positive region, one for the negative region.
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Here's an example
y=2%2Aabs%28x-2%29

Two points in the negative slope (m%5Bn%5D) region : (0,4) and (2,0)
Two points in the positive slope (m%5Bp%5D) region : (2,0) and (4,4)
m%5Bn%5D=+%28DELTA%2Ay%29%2F%28DELTA%2Ax%29=+%280-4%29%2F%282-0%29=-4%2F2=-2
m%5Bp%5D=%28DELTA%2Ay%29%2F%28DELTA%2Ax%29=%284-0%29%2F%284-2%29=4%2F2=2