What is the purpose of finding the slope of a line

Suppose investors can earn a return of 2% per 6 months on a treasury note with 6 months remaining until maturity. the face value of the t-bill is $10,000. what price would you expect a 6-month maturity treasury bill to sell for? (round your answer to 2 decimal places. omit the "$" sign in your response.)

Rosy waxes 2/3 of her car with 1/4 bottle of car wax.at this rate,what fraction of the bottle of car wax will rosey use to wax her entire car

In the following diagram it is given that dec,ab || dc, ad || eb, and ad is congruent to bc. a)why isn't abc a parallelogram even though it has a pair of parallel sides and a pair of congruent sides b)explain why be must be congruent to bc. further explain what type of triangle this makes triangle abc and what it tells you about angle 1 and angle 2c) finally why must angle 3 be congruent to angle 1? further, explain why we know that angle 3 is congruent to angle 2