Find the Slope by Using the Formula

What is the formula for finding slope?

What is the slope of a line between (-4,14) and (-16,8)?
Reminder!

Find the slope. Simplify, if you can.

• 2

In the equation y=mx+b, what does the m represent?

• slope

• y-intercept

• linear

• point-slope

What is the slope in the equation y=2x + 3?

• 2

• 3

• 5

• Cannot be Determined 

Find the slope from the given points:

(3,-1) (4,7)

Which formula is shown?

• Slope

• Distance

• Midpoint

You can prove both pairs of opposite sides are parallel by using the slope formula.

• True

• False

Which of the following has the slope formula written correctly?

If I want to show two lines are parallel what formula do I use?

• Slope

• Distance

• Midpoint

• Pythagorean Theorm