Question

Points D, C, B, and A are collinear.What is the slope of DC in simplest form?5BСSlope of DC = [?]D

Answer 1

Given points D, C, B and A are colinear (they lie on the same line), you can determine that the slope of AB and the slope of DC are the same.

By definition:

$Slope=\frac{Rise}{Run}$

In this case, you can identify that:

$\begin{gathered} Rise=5 \\ Run=1 \end{gathered}$

Therefore, you can determine that:

$\begin{gathered} Slope\text{ }of\text{ }DC=\frac{5}{1} \\ \\ Slope\text{ }of\text{ }DC=5 \end{gathered}$

Hence, the answer is:

$Slope\text{ }of\text{ }DC=5$