SOLUTION: find the slope and y-intercept of the line y=6x-13. Is the line parallel to y=-6x-12?

Question 118760: find the slope and y-intercept of the line y=6x-13. Is the line parallel to y=-6x-12?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let's find the slope of

Let's use the general equation where m is the slope and b is the y-intercept

From , we can see that and

So the slope of is

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Let's find the slope of

Let's use the general equation where m is the slope and b is the y-intercept

From , we can see that and

So the slope of is

Since the two slopes are not equal, the two lines are not parallel.
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