A student finds the slop of the line between (4, 3) and (-2, - 2). She writes - 2-4/-2-3. What mistake did she make?

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Levi Garner

Mathematics

19 January, 09:39

A student finds the slop of the line between (4, 3) and (-2, - 2). She writes - 2-4/-2-3. What mistake did she make?

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Deven Martin · Answer 1

Her mistake is that she did the change in x over the change in y. It should be the change in y over the change in x. So: - 2-3/-2-4

Dana Farley · Answer 2

In the slope formula, The difference in the y-values are on the numerator and the difference in the x-values are on the denominator.

It should be:

(-2-3) / (-2-4)