Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 8
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Exercise 16 Page 188

Substitute the given points into the Slope Formula.

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We are given a table of points that lie on a line.

x - 2 0 2 4
y 3 4 5 6
We can calculate the slope by substituting only two points of the given table into the Slope Formula. m = y_2-y_1/x_2-x_1 Note that it does not matter which point we choose to use for ( x_1, y_1) and ( x_2, y_2), since the result of using the Slope Formula will be the same.
m=y_2-y_1/x_2-x_1
m=4- 3/0-( - 2)
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Add and subtract terms
m=4-3/0+2
m=1/2
The slope of the line that passes through the given points is 12.