What is the difference between positive and negative slopes?

Two friends are reading books. jimmy reads a book with 21,356 words. his friend bob reads a book with one-and-a-half times as many words. which expression represents the number of words bob reads?

Plzz ! if you were constructing a triangular frame, and you had wood in the length of 4 inches, 4 inches, and 7 inches, would it make a triangle? would you be able to create a frame from these pieces of wood? yes or no? = explain your mathematical thinking/show your work:

Which function is represented by the graph? a. f(x)=|x-1|+3 b. f(x)=|x+1|-3 c. f(x)=|x-1|-3 d. f(x)=|x+1|+3