Question

What is the slope of a line that passes through points (3,7) and (5,4)?​

Answer 1

The slope is -3/2.

The y-intercept is 11.5.

The equation in y= mx+b format is y= -3/2x + 11.5.

Hope that helps. :)

Answer 2

Step-by-step explanation:

There are two ways to look at the problem.

The easiest one is:

Slope generally means

$\frac{rise}{run} meaning \: \frac{change \: in \: y \: axis}{change \: in \: x \: axis}$

Applying this formula we can get,

slope =

$\frac{7 - 4}{ 5 - 3 } = - \frac{3}{2} = - 1.5$