The slope of the line is the tilt of the line. The ration is the difference of two y points over the difference between two x points.
The difference in the y-values of two points on a line is equal to the vertical distance between those points. This difference is also known as the "rise" or the "change in y." To calculate the difference in the y-values of two points (yβ, xβ) and (yβ, xβ) on a line, you simply subtract the y-coordinate of one point from the y-coordinate of the other: Difference in y-values = yβ - yβ This calculation gives you the vertical distance between the two points on the line.
The slope of a line that passes through two points is (difference in y) / (difference in x).
A straight line is the shortest distance between two points, a line is the delineation of a connection between two or more points.
The RUN
Rise.
The distance between any two points on a number line is the absolute value of the difference of the coordinates.
The difference in the x-values of two points on a line is called the run. This term is used in math when finding slope of a line. The change in y-values on a line is called the rise. The slope is given as rise divided by the run.
To find the slope we need to divide the difference in rise between these two points by the difference in run between them. The difference in rise equals: 3-2 = 1. The difference in run between these points equals: 2-4 = -2.Now we just divide 1/-2 and we get the slope of the line formed by these two points: -0.5
distance
A ray has a single start point, and goes on infinitely in one direction. A line segment has two end points and is finite. A line has no end points and goes on infinitely in two directions.
The distance between two points on a line is the absolute value of the difference between their coordinates. This can be calculated using the distance formula: |x2 - x1|, where x1 and x2 are the coordinates of the two points.