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)?
Answer by vleith(2983) About Me  (Show Source):
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Solved by pluggable solver: FIND EQUATION of straight line given 2 points
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 a+=+%28y%5B2%5D-y%5B1%5D%29%2F%28x%5B2%5D-x%5B1%5D%29+=+%2824-0%29%2F%285-2%29+=+8.
Intercept is found from equation a%2Ax%5B1%5D%2Bb+=+y%5B1%5D, or 8%2A2+%2Bb+=+-16. From that,
intercept b is b=y%5B1%5D-a%2Ax%5B1%5D, or b=0-8%2A2+=+-16.

y=(8)x + (-16)

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