I'm new to programming and was trying to write a simple program to find the slope of a line, and I was wondering how I could handle variables with fractions in them. Currently, if I assign any of the variables as a fraction I will get an error.
var oneX = prompt ("what is the X of the first coordinate?");
var oneY = prompt ("what is the Y of the first coordinate?");
var twoX = prompt ("what is the X of the second coordinate?");
var twoY = prompt ("what is the Y of the second coordinate?");
console.log(oneX);
console.log(oneY);
console.log(twoX);
console.log(twoY);
var yRes = twoY-oneY;
var xRes = twoX-oneX;
console.log(yRes);
console.log(xRes);
var slope = yRes/xRes
console.log(slope);
If you have any advice for making this program neater too, I'd be happy for it. Thanks!
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