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Okay sy mash members we got a pretty colored graph

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for you here It's like the rainbow star What do

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you think Signing it up ok which of the lines

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shone above Has the smallest slope Don't throw your hands

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up in the air just yet you know the kind

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where you're in despair or the kind where you just

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don't care As it turns out we don't actually need

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to calculate each slope and then compare numbers We just

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need to remember to basic principles First lines with a

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positive slope extend upward into the right lines with a

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negative slope extend downward into the right Negative numbers are

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smaller than positive numbers so we're going to rule out

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a c and line d here which have positive slope

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and second lines that extend upwards Mohr steeply or closer

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to the vertical access have a larger slope right it's

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a higher number at least a larger absolute value Well

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this gets tricky with negative numbers because negative numbers with

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a larger absolute value are actually smaller For example negative

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eight has a larger absolute value than negative one What

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line b has a negative slope with a larger absolute

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value than that of line eh So line b has 00:01:17.27 --> [endTime] the smallest slope so yeah the answer is b

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