How to Find the Slope of a Line

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How to Find the Slope of a Line In general, slope is the rate at which the path rises or decreases. In other words, The slope is a number that tells how steep a line goes up and down. For example consider that your surfing on a mountain, you keep sliding on the mountain. The rate at which the steepness changes, is said as slope. If the line is from top to bottom level, the slope is at 0 (zero) and theline is exactly horizontal. If, as you go to the right, the line goes upward, we say it is sloping up or positive slope. If it goes down as we go to the right, we call that line as a negative slope. Formula for Slope of a Line Slope of a line is defined as the ratio of rise over run. In other words, slope can also be defined as the ratio of change in 'y' value to the corresponding change in 'x' value. The definition mentioned above can be represented from the following, Slope can be represented as = Hence, slope of a line is defined as the ratio of to the Know More About Cylinder Volume

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Finding the Slope of a Line Below are examples for finding the slope of a line Example 1: Find the slope of line given below using ratio method, Solution: To figure out the slope of the given line, Draw a horizontal line of some distance on the graph. From that point, illustrate a vertical line from the to lay a hand on the line. The horizontal line show the change in 'x', and the vertical line gives the corresponding change in 'y'. The figure below gives a clear idea, Example 2: Find the slope of line using the ratio method. Solution : To figure out the slope of the given line, Draw a horizontal line of some distance on the graph. From that point, illustrate a vertical line from the to lay a hand on the line. The horizontal line shows the revolutionize in 'x', and the vertical line gives the corresponding change in 'y'. Learn More How to Find the Area of a Rectangle Tutorvista.com

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The figure below gives a clear idea,

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Parallelogram Definition Parallelogram Parallelogram definition states that a parallelogram is a four-sided figure which has two pairs of parallel sides. Some of theproperties of parallelograms are as follows: The opposite sides of a parallelogram are of the same length. The opposite angles of a parallelogram are congruent. The overall angles of parallelogram adds up to 360 degree. These are some of the parallelogram proeprties.The area of a parallelogram is also the same as the degree of thevector cross product of two adjacent sides. Area of a Parallelogram The area of a parallelogram can be calculated by using the formula shown below, Parallelogram

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Area = b Ă— h Sq. Units Perimeter = 2(b + h) Units. Where, b is the base of the parallelograms and h is the height of the parallelograms. The area of a parallelograms is two times the area of a triangle created by one of its diagonals The area of a parallelogram is equal to the size of the vector cross product of two adjacent sides. Perimeter of a Parallelogram The perimeter of a parallelogram can be measured in a two dimensional figure. It is the outer layer or the border of the area of the two dimensional shape. It is also known as circumference. For example, if a garden is covered with a fence then the perimeter of the fence covered garden will be the length of the fence. Here we are going to see the perimeter of the parallelogram. The perimeter of a parallelogram = 2 ( side1 + side2 ) Solving Problems on Parallelograms Below are some solved problems on parallelograms Read More About Area of a Rectangle Formula

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Example 1: Find the area of the parallelogram, given length = 5 cm and base = 6 cm Solution: Area of parallelogram = b x h =5x6 Area of parallelogram = 30 cm2 Example 2: Find the area and perimeter of the parallelogram, whose length = 15 cm and base = 3 cm. Solution: Area of parallelogram = b x h = 15 x 3 Area of parallelogram = 45 cm2 Perimeter of parallelogram = 2(b + h) = 2(15 + 3) = 2(18) Perimeter of Parallelogram = 36 cm

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