comparing slopes

Question

When arranging slopes from least to greatest do we take the absolute of the slopes and then compare or do we consider the one with negative slope as the least??

Answer 1

Absolute value, then compare

Answer 2

It depends on the teacher. You should be able to do either as long as you explain how you felt it was an ambiguous question and how you decided to interpret it. If that is not an option, I would suppose the negative slope would count as the least.