## anonymous one year ago Slope tutorial!

1. anonymous

First of all: You gotta know two points on your graph. Lets call these points ($(x_{1},y_{1})$ and$(x_{2},y_{2})$

2. anonymous

Next to find the actual slope, you have to use the formula: $\frac{y_{2}-y_{1}}{ x_{2}-x_{1} }$

3. anonymous

For example, if you were trying trying to find the slope of the two points (1,2) and (9,4) Use the slope formula and the equation would look something like this: $\frac{ 4-2 }{ 9-1 }$

4. anonymous

Then you would turn up with an answer of: $\frac{ 2 }{ 8 }$

5. anonymous

Which can be simplified to $\frac{ 1 }{ 4 }$

6. anonymous

The slope of the graph with points (1,2) and (9,4) is: $\frac{ 1 }{ 4 } or 0.25$

7. anonymous

Shortest OS tutorial complete! XD

8. Nnesha

congrats :=)

9. Setsuna-Yuregeshi

I never understand why you simplify the slope, when you do that, how would you find the next points?

10. nincompoop

what do you mean my simplify slope?

11. nincompoop

@Icedragon50 how would you calculate the slope using your formula in this type of problem http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/55af0b30e4b04559507a20c1

12. nincompoop

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19. dan815

whats awesome is someone who doesnt know english, would think that was just a pattern on this rabbit snake

20. nincompoop

laughing out loud

21. SolomonZelman

Hello, Icedragon50, nice work! Just a quick latex advise for what you have wrote $$\dfrac{1}{4}or0.25$$ you can use ~ for a space (and the more ~ you put, the more space you get). $$\dfrac{1}{4}~or~0.25$$ (see how I used the ~ for space?) and it gives you $$\dfrac{1}{4}~or~0.25$$ or, even better with \rm font, and more space. $$\dfrac{1}{4}~~{\rm or}~~0.25$$ and it gives you: $$\dfrac{1}{4}~~{\rm or}~~0.25$$