SOLUTION: my first ever question, i need to find out how to solve for y in this equation -3x+2y=2 my homework is to graph a line given its equation so my answer should come out to be y

Question 677318: my first ever question, i need to find out how to solve for y in this equation
-3x+2y=2
my homework is to graph a line given its equation so my answer should come out to be y=mx+b or if if the y intercept is negative it will be y=mx-b, please help me and thank you
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Now let's graph

Looking at we can see that the equation is in slope-intercept form where the slope is and the y-intercept is

Since this tells us that the y-intercept is

.Remember the y-intercept is the point where the graph intersects with the y-axis

So we have one point

Now since the slope is comprised of the "rise" over the "run" this means

Also, because the slope is , this means:

which shows us that the rise is 3 and the run is 2. This means that to go from point to point, we can go up 3 and over 2

So starting at

, go up 3 units

and to the right 2 units to get to the next point

Now draw a line through these points to graph

So this is the graph of through the points

and

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