Help understanding the slope of a line

I'm having a hard time understanding some things about the slope of lines. If slope is negative, for example the slope is -5/2. Would it be DOWN 5 RIGHT 2, or DOWN 5 LEFT 2? I'm don't really understand that can someone explain?
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DOWN 5 RIGHT 2

 

You don't know this yet, but the resultant slope is a vector.  Vectors have direction and magnitude.  So your first assumption was correct.

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