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An environmental analyst is monitoring a steady decline in a reservoir's water level. The data is plotted on a graph, and a line is drawn through the points (0, 5) and (3, 3). According to the standard four-step procedure, why is the 'rise' for this segment represented as a negative value (-2)?

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