SOLUTION: please help me find the slope of x+4y=8. The book's directions say find the slope of each line by solving for y.

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Question 71347This question is from textbook (prentice hall) algebra 1
: please help me find the slope of x+4y=8. The book's directions say find the slope of each line by solving for y. This question is from textbook (prentice hall) algebra 1

Found 2 solutions by checkley75, jujuskicol:
Answer by checkley75(3666) (Show Source):
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x+4y=8
4y=-x+8
y=-x/4+8/-4 (y=mx+b)
y=-x/4-2 thus the slope (m) is -1/4.

Answer by jujuskicol(1) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x+4y=8 you are going to try and get y on one side by itself so... start by subtracting x so then you will have 4y=x+8 then divide by 4... so u will have y=(x+8) all over 4 or (1/4)x +(8/4)=y then u can simplify the 8/4 to 2. so the final answer would be... y=(1/4)x +2... k no you know that the equation is in slope intercept form (y=mx+b) m= the slope so the slope is 1/4