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To determine the line with steeper slope.
Answer to Problem 44PPS
Line 2 is steeper.
Explanation of Solution
Given information :
Line 1: (-9, -4) and (7, 0)
Line 2: (0, 1) and (7, 4)
The line with higher magnitude value of slope will be steeper.
Hence we shall determine the slope of the both lines using the points.
We know that the slope of a line is given by the formula,
Slope of line 1 is,
Slope of line 1 is,
Hence we can observe that
Therefore line 2 is steeper.
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