Initial Practice: Calculating the Slope

Complete the three questions for this practice. Please write your answers on a piece of scrap paper. When you are done, check your answers with the solution provided.

  1. What is the slope of the line connecting the points (0, 3) and (8, 5)?
  2. Calculate the slope of the line given in the figure below.

  3. In the figure below, which line (A, B, or C) has the slope with the largest value? Which one has the slope with the smallest value?


[solution to practice]