What is the slope of the line shown below?

(3, 8)

(1, -2)

To find the slope of the line, I will be showing you the table method.

To find the slope of the line using the table method,

we start by making a table for our ordered pairs.

We will put the x values in the left column

and the y values in the right column.

Our first ordered pair is (3, 8), so we put a

3 in the x column and a 8 in the y column.

Our second ordered pair is (1, -2), so we put a

1 in the x column and a -2 in the y column.

Next, remember that the slope or m, is always equal to

the rate of change or the change in y over the change in x.

Using our table, we can see that the y values

go from 8 to -2 so the change in y is -10.

The x values go from 3 to 1 so the change in x is 2.

Therefore, the rate of change, or the change in y

over the change in x is -10/2 which reduces to 5.

This means that the slope is also equal to 5.

3,000,540

step-by-step explanation:

step-by-step explanation:

the multiplicative inverse of a fraction a/b is b/a. for the multiplicative inverse of a real number, divide 1 by the number. for example, the reciprocal of 5 is one fifth 1/5 or 0.2, and the reciprocal of 0.25 is 1 divided by 0.25, or 4.