Find a slope for a pair of given points. (a,b) and (c,d). Do I write it as d-b/c-a? I'm confused

Answer 1

on line, you need to write it as (d-b)/(c-a) because formatting fractions does not go well. PEMDAS means that

d-b/c-a = d - (b/c) - a

which is not what you want.