SOLUTION: graph 4y + 3x = -4 and what is the y-intercept

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Question 391323: graph 4y + 3x = -4 and what is the y-intercept
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Hi,   previously posted      

Using the standard slope-intercept form for an equation of a line y = mx + b

  where m is the slope and b the y-intercept.  

  4y + 3x = -4     |solving for y to put into slope-intercept form

      y = -(3/4)x - 1

  y-intercept is (0,-1) slope of the line m = -(3/4) line slants to left( m < 0)

Note: slope tells us as y value changes by 3, x value changes by 4 in the opposite direction