SOLUTION: Find the slope if it exsists. m=? Help me with this? The slope is -5? x = -5

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Question 142661: Find the slope if it exsists. m=? Help me with this? The slope is -5?
x = -5
Answer by vleith(2983) About Me  (Show Source):
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If you plot x=-5, you get a vertical line where every point on that line has an x coordinate of -5.
Slope = delta y / delta x.
delta x would always be -5+-+%28-5%29+=+0
But you know that a fraction with a zero denominator is undefined. So the slope is undefined for any vertical line.