SOLUTION: find the slope and y-intercept of y= -2/3x+20

Question 119885: find the slope and y-intercept of y= -2/3x+20
Answer by bucky(2189) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The slope-intercept form of an equation is:
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y = mx + b
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in which m, the multiplier of x, is the slope and b, a constant, is the y-intercept.
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The equation you are given is y = (-2/3)x + 20 and you can see by inspection that this equation
is in the slope-intercept form. By comparing this equation with the slope-intercept
form, you can see that the multiplier of the x is -2/3 so the slope of the line of the given
equation is -2/3. You can also see by this comparison that the constant term is +20, and
so the y-intercept is +20.
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So the answer to you problem is slope = -2/3 and y-intercept = +20 ... both of which you
can immediately identify by inspection.
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Hope this helps you to understand the problem.
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