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How do you find a slope of a line using only two points??

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Its the difference between the y- values divided by the distance between the corresponding x values. Or  its sometimes called rise / run.
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User Aske Doerge
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The formula to use is :

( y_(2)-y_(1) )/(x_(2)-x_(1))
where the two coordinates are in the format (x1, y1) and (x2, y2)
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