How to Find the Slope of a Line on an Excel Graph. In math and statistics, you may occasionally need to calculate the slope of a line generated by coordinates in the (x,y) format.

Excel's intercept function takes the data points that define a line on a graph and calculates the y value for the point on the graph where x is equal to zero.

Higher Motion - equations and graphs Measure the acceleration of an object down a slope The motion of objects can be analysed using equations and graphs.