Y m x b. Some call the y-coordinates the rise and the x-coordinates the run. The slope of a line on the coordinate plane basically tells you how steep the line is.
Learn how to write the slope formula from scratch and how to apply it to find the slope of a line from two points.
To find the slope you divide the difference of the y-coordinates of 2 points on a line by the difference of the x-coordinates of those same 2 points. It is the ratio of the change in the y-axis to the change in the x-axis. X1 x2 are the coordinates of x-axis and y1 y2 are the coordinates of y-axis. The equation of the line in the above diagram is.