Slope

Question 1

What is the slope formula?

Answer 1

Question 2

When do you use the slope formula?

Answer 2

When you are calulating the slope between two points and have the coordinates

When you are calculating the slope between two points from a table of values

Question 3

What is the slope-intercept form of the equation of a line?

Answer 3

Question 4

In the slope-intercept form of the equation of a line, which letter represents the slope?

Answer 4

m

Question 5

In the slope-intercept form of the equation of a line, which letter represents the y-intercept (vertical intercept)?

Answer 5

b

Question 6

x = ______ at the y-intercept.

Answer 6

0

The coordinate of the y-intercept is ( 0 , b), where b is the intersection of the line an the y-axis.

Question 7

Is the slope of this line positive, negative, zero, or undefined?

Answer 7

Question 8

Is the slope of this line positive, negative, zero, or undefined?

Answer 8

Question 9

Is the slope of this line positive, negative, zero, or undefined?

Answer 9

Question 10

Is the slope of this line positive, negative, zero, or undefined?

Answer 10

Question 11

What are three key words or phrases for slope?

Answer 11

per

each

for every

rate

rate of change

Question 12

What are three key words or phrases for the y-intercept (vertical intercept)?

Answer 12

starting point

Started with

Started at

Already has

Has saved

Question 13

How do you find the slope of a line from a graph?

Answer 13

1. Find two points where the line intersects both vertical and horizontal gridlines
2. Create a right triangle with the line and the two points
3. Count the length of the vertical side of the triangle
4. count the length of the horizontal side of the triangle
5. The slope is the length of the vertical side divided by the length of the horizontal side

Slope is the

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