This week I learned how to find the slope of a line on a graph. The slope is a number that describes the steepness of a line. You would first need to find the rise and the run, and that would either give you a fraction or a whole number.

Start by finding two perfect dots that you can use as your first coordinates, they would be on the very corner of a square on a lined graph. Then you would find their coordinates. For example (3, 2) and (6, 5). First you would find the rise, so the difference in y. You would look at the leftmost dot since we look at it from left to right, and compare it to the rightmost dot by seeing how much it changes. Does it go up or down? In my example my two y coordinates are 2 and 5 which means my y goes up by 3. Then you would find the run, so the x. You would do the same thing but look at the x coordinates. In my example I used 3 and 6 so it goes up by 3 again. Rise goes over run as a fraction which means my slope would be 3/3.

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