Question

What is the slope of the line shown?

Answer 1

We know that, slope of the line segment whose end point coordinates are $(x_1,y_1)$ and $(x_2,y_2)$ is given by
$\frac{y_2-y_1}{x_2-x_1}$

Here, $(x_1,y_1)\equiv (-2,0)$ and $(x_2,y_2)\equiv (0,-4)$
$\therefore$ Slope of line segment $AB=\frac{-4-0}{0-(-2)}$
$=\frac{-4}{0+2}$
$=\frac{-4}{2}$
$=-2$

Hence, the slope of the line $AB$ is $-2.$