SOLUTION: How do you find the slope of a line that is not linear?

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Question 555936: How do you find the slope of a line that is not linear?
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You find the slope of the line tangent to the curve at each point. The function that shows you the slope at each point is called the derivative and you study about it in Calculus. You may not need to have studied Calculus to find that slope, but it would take a long explanation.