SOLUTION: What is the slope of the line y=-2?

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Question 1011424: What is the slope of the line y=-2?
Found 3 solutions by Alan3354, Theo, MathLover1:
Answer by Alan3354(69443) About Me  (Show Source):
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What is the slope of the line y=-2?
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In slope-intercept form, y = mx + b
m is the slope.
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y = -2 --> y = 0x - 2.

Answer by Theo(13342) About Me  (Show Source):
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this is a horizontal line at y = -2.
slope equals change in the value of y divided by change in the value of x.
the formula is (y2-y1) / (x2-x1).
there is no change in the value of y, so the slope is 0.

a more interesting question is what is the slope of the line x = -2.

this is vertical line at x = -2.
the slope is undefined.
slope equals change in the value of y divided by change in the value of x.
the formula is (y2-y1) / (x2-x1).
there is no change in the value of x, so the slope is undefined because you are dividing by the change in the value of x which is 0.

here's a graph of y = -2 and x = -2.
the blue line is x = -2
the red line is y = -2

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Answer by MathLover1(20850) About Me  (Show Source):
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y=mx%2Bb is slope-intercept form where m is a slope and b is y-intercept
You have y=-2 which means y=0%2Ax-2 where m=0 is a slope and b=-2
so, this is a horizontal line and slope is 0.
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