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ACT Math: Coordinate Geometry Drill 3, Problem 2. What is the slope of a line through the points given?

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For a good time, solve this shmoopy question...

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What is the slope of the line through 4, 7 and -2, 6?

00:09

And here are your options...

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The standard equation for point slope lines

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is Y equals MX plus B and we can get M

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by subtracting two points on a graph so in this case check out the points here

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on the graph.

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4, 7 and -2, 6. The points live here and here

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and we can draw a line through them in a slope is here. Line goes a little bit

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upward...so double check ourselves we know it's gonna have to have a positive slope

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so we can immediately reject C, D and E So in this case

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we just subtract the points and put them in the form Y

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over X. So take the 7 of the 4, 7 point

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and subtract 6 from it. We get 1 in the numerator

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now get the x-coordinate. We have 4

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minus -2 which is just adding 2

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to get 6. So that's slope of 1 over 6. Here it is.

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Answer A as in "Abracadabra."

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