please help me, u have no clue what to do. all it says is find the slope of the line that passes through the given two points using ratio method.​

Triangle y = 7

Triangle x = -3

Slope = - 7/3

Step-by-step explanation:

Formula:

slope (or m) = (y2 - y1)/(x2 - x1)

Plug numbers into formula

m = 8 - 1 / 4 - 7

m = 7 / -3

Cannot be simplified further

Slope = - 7/3

The triangle before y is asking for the difference, meaning what number do you get after taking y2 (8 in this problem) and subtracting y1 (1 in this problem) from it.

8 - 1 = 7 which forms the numerator for our slope

The same goes for the triangle before x. Find the difference

x2 - x1 = 4 - 7 = -3. This forms the denominator of our slope

to plot points   for x just start at the origin (middle) and go to the left however many times it say(if the number is a positive) if the number is a negative then go right however many times it says if it is 0 go nowhere

now keep you pencil there and go up however many times it says on y(if it is positive) if it is negative then go down however many times it says. if it says 0 go nowhere.

you have just plotted a point! now when you finish plotting all of them connect them with a ruler

plot each point as (-3, 7), (0,4), (3,1), (8,-4)   in the parenthesis on the left of the comma is x and the right is y.

1. 22

2. 1

3. 7

4. 18

step-by-step explanation

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