SOLUTION: Find an equation of the line containing the point (2, -1) and parallel to the line 8x=7y-24. Please provide step-by-step for arriving to the answer. Thanks to my textbook I know th

Question 363062: Find an equation of the line containing the point (2, -1) and parallel to the line 8x=7y-24. Please provide step-by-step for arriving to the answer. Thanks to my textbook I know the answer is y=8/7x-23/7. I want to know how they arrived at that answer, because when I do it I get y=8/7x+24/7.
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
First find the slope by converting to slope-intercept form,

<--- That's the slope-intercept form of the first line.
Parallel lines have identical slopes.

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Now use point (2,-1) to solve for .

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<--- That's the slope-intercept form of the second line.
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