Finding The Gradient Of A Line On A Graph
This lesson covers:
- What we mean by the term 'gradient'
- The different ways we can find the gradient from a graph
What does the gradient of a line tell us?
How high the line is
How long the line is
How steep the line is
Where the line intersects the y-axis
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Which of these two lines has the higher gradient?
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When deciding whether a line slopes up or down, do we follow the line from left-to-right, or right-to-left?
Left-to-right
Right-to-left
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The simplest way to find the gradient of a line is to figure out how much the line goes up or down by, each time it goes across by one. Using this technique, what is the gradient on the line below?
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The above graph shows the rise and the run between two points A and B.
Use this information & the formula below to find the gradient of the line.
(Give your answer as a decimal)
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The above graph shows the rise and the run between two points A and B.
Use this information to find the gradient of the line.
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What is the gradient of the line on the graph above?
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