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What is the slope of the line that contains the points (7/2, -19/4) and (-2/3, 57/8) ?

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So I will do this problem because those people who wrote this problem want us to do it this way,

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by using the formula.

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But you know I'm not a fan of blindly using formulas.

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So maybe after we do this, we will work it out, or we will visualise it a little bit

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to show us the formula really is just measuring the inclination of the line.

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So if I have two points,

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So let's say one point is (x1,y1)

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The other point is (X2,Y2). The slope of a line; and they use the letter "m" for the slope of the line.

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Is going to be the difference between the "y"s, and you want to make sure

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you get the order right. So if we start with "Y2"