Question

Find the slope of the line that passes through the points (-1, 2),
(0, 5). Show work

Answer 1

To find the slope:

 ⇒ must know the slope's formula

    ⇒ $\frac{y_{2}-y_{1} }{x_{2}-x_{1} }$

        ⇒ $(x_{1} ,y_{1} )$ and $(x_{2} ,y_{2} )$ are any points on the line

           ⇒ we use (-1,2) and (0,5) since they are the only points that we

                know that are on the line

• $(x_{1} ,y_{1} )$: (-1,2)
• $(x_{2} ,y_{2}$): (0,5)

Let's solve:

  $Slope = \frac{5-2}{0--1} =\frac{3}{1}$

Slope is 3

Hope that helps!