September 25, 2008

Here is today's assignment.
Go to Exercise 7 in your book and do questions 1-7, skipping number 4.

1. Find the slope of each segment:

2. Find the slope of each line:

3. On a sheet of graph paper locate the points P(-2, 3) and Q(4, -1). Find the slope of PQ.

5. Describe in words the difference between a positive slope and negative slope.
What kind of line has a zero slope?

6. Without drawing the line, find the slope of the line given the two points on the line:

a. (1, 2) and (6, 4)
b. (-1, 3) and (4, 2)
c. (-2, -3) and (1, 1)
d. (4, 3) and (-1, 2)

7. Find the area of triangle ABC.
(Hint: First find the altitude.)

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