Types of Slopes

Types of Slopes

Introduction

Have you ever noticed how a road goes uphill, downhill, or stays flat? In math, we use slope to describe how steep a line is. Slope helps us understand changes between two quantities and is used in maps, construction, sports ra...

Imagine a hiker climbing up and down a hill. Let’s track a hiker’s journey on a graph where the x-axis shows time and the y-axis shows height.

First, the hiker climbs from (1, 2) to (3, 6), the line increases.

Using the slope formula, the rise is 4, and the run is 2, giving a positive slope of 2, indicati...