SOLUTION: find the slope of the line y=-3x

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Question 223622: find the slope of the line y=-3x
Found 2 solutions by checkley77, Edwin McCravy:
Answer by checkley77(12844)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Y=mX+b
y=-3x [m=-3 which is the slope.]
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
find the slope of the line y=-3x

When any equation of a line is solved for y, 
the coefficient of x on the right side is always 
equal to the slope of the line.  The equation

y = -3x

is solved for y, and the coefficient of x on
the right side is -3.  Therefore the slope of
the line is -3.

Edwin
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