Gradient🙄

Question 1

What is the Gradient of a Line?

Answer 1

• A measurement of the line’s steepness
• As we ascend a flight of stairs we undergo a horizontal shift
• A slanted line can also be seen to have a vertical rise & a horizontal shift
• A line with a greater vertical rise compared to its horizontal shift is steeper than a line with a greater horizontal shift
• A line with zero vertical rise is horizontal
  -A line with zero horizontal shift is vertical
• The Gradient or steepness of the line is the ratio of its vertical rise to its horizontal shift

Question 2

Gradient Equation

Answer 2

Gradient= vertical rise/horizontal shift
= y2 - y1/x2 - x1