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ACT Aspire Math: Finding the Slope of a Graphed Line 6 Views


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What is the slope of the line given in the graph?


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All right More math drills for you Check out this

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graph Alright What is the slope of the line given

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in the graph Right here shmoop All right well right

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away people we know the slope is downward so it's

00:19

going to be a negative stuff so we can get

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rid of cd andy Like right away Yeah put away

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that slope intercept equation We confined the slope by using

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the graph here to do some good old fashioned counting

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Yeah take off your shoes and socks We may need

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your clothes In this case we're looking for vertical change

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over horizontal change And imagine the two d stick figure

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of your choice Ours has a really awesome green mohawk

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running along the x axis right there That's your horizontal

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change Then think about him either Rising up along the

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y axis says if he were climbing a hill or

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sinking along the y axis as if he were you

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know running down a hill that'll give you the slope

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of the line If you calculate for the rise of

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the run well starting at the y intercept and going

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to the point to dig out of five When the

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line goes down three units and runs along the x

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axis for two units there's a vertical change of negative

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three in a horizontal change of positive too So the

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slope of the line Yes Vertical over horizontal Negative three

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over to negative three abs That's it That's our answer 00:01:19.546 --> [endTime] So the answer right there is beef

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