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Classifying Slope: The Four Major Types Are,: AL14.4.notebook October 14, 2010

The document discusses classifying lines by their slope. There are four types of slopes: positive slope where the line rises from left to right, negative slope where the line falls from left to right, zero slope for a horizontal line, and undefined slope for a vertical line. The document provides examples of using both the algebraic slope formula and graphical rise over run method to find the slope of a line between two points.

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Classifying Slope: The Four Major Types Are,: AL14.4.notebook October 14, 2010

The document discusses classifying lines by their slope. There are four types of slopes: positive slope where the line rises from left to right, negative slope where the line falls from left to right, zero slope for a horizontal line, and undefined slope for a vertical line. The document provides examples of using both the algebraic slope formula and graphical rise over run method to find the slope of a line between two points.

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AL14.4.

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Classifying Slope: The four major types are,

It falls from left to right

It rises from left to right

It's a horizontal line

It's a vertical line

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NegativeSlope:

L1

It falls

L2

PositiveSlope:

It rises
Slopeofahorizontalline Zero
Slopeofaverticalline

Undefined

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Positive, negative, zero or undefined?

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6.

5.

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ClassificationofLinesbySlope:
itrises

PositiveSlope:

itfalls

NegativeSlope:
ZeroSlope:

staysconstant

UndefinedSlope:
(noslope)

verticalline

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There are two methods you can use to find the slope of a line:
Algebraically or Graphically

When you have the line already graphed, count the "rise over run"
When you don't have a graph, but 2 points instead, use the "Slope Formula"
But it really doesn't matter whether you do it graphically
or algebraically because it is still the same slope either
way

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Algebraically or Graphically ?????????


Find the slope of the line that passes through the points:

(3, 4) (-5, 0)

Algebraically
(use the formula)

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Algebraically or Graphically ?????????


Find the slope of the line:

Graphically
(count the rise over run)

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Finding the rate of change is the same as finding the slope:


Use both methods: Algebraically

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Finding the rate of change is the same as finding the slope:


Use both methods

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