SOLUTION: I need to find the slope intercept form for x-4y=8 I can't seem to find the answer, on the back of the book it states the answer as y=3x-2 please help.

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: I need to find the slope intercept form for x-4y=8 I can't seem to find the answer, on the back of the book it states the answer as y=3x-2 please help. This question is from textbook

Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
To put an equation of the form into slope-intercept form , you simply solve the equation for y. That means do anything legal to get a single y on the left side of the equal sign and everything else on the right. Your problem is larger than just that. Because either there is an error in the answer key in the back of your book, or you are looking at the wrong answer. is most assuredly not equivalent to

Add -x to both sides:

Divide both sides by -4 (the coefficient on y)

The green line is , and the red one is the correct answer.

If it is an error in the answer key, don't sweat it. It certainly isn't the first time and highly unlikely to be the last.
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