Slope

Real World Example

Imagine you're riding a bicycle up a hill and you're trying to figure out how challenging the climb will be. This is similar to understanding the slope of a line on a graph, where the steepness of the hill represents the vertical change and the distance you travel horizontally represents the horizontal change. Just like how the effort required to pedal up the hill depends on how steep it is (how much you rise for every bit you move forward), the slope of a line is calculated by dividing the vertical change by the horizontal change, helping you grasp how steep or flat a line is on a graph.