SOLUTION: Please help me get this concept please anyone!!!! I am working with slopes and the issue I have is finding slopes when you are only given an equation x=-3y I know that we have t

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Question 179607: Please help me get this concept please anyone!!!!
I am working with slopes and the issue I have is finding slopes when you are only given an equation
x=-3y
I know that we have to rewrite the equation is slope\intercept (y=mx+b) form and that is where I have the trouble
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated!
Found 2 solutions by stanbon, Mathtut:
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I am working with slopes and the issue I have is finding slopes when you are only given an equation
x=-3y
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Put it in slope-intercept form:
Multiply both sides by (-1/3) to get:
y = (-1/3)x
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slope = -1/3 ; intercept = 0
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Cheers,
Stan H.

Answer by Mathtut(3670) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x=-3y
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so for this equation, as well as any other line equation we have to isolate the y on one side of the equals and the x and constant term on the other side
In order to do that with this equation:
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-3y=x
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y=(-1/3)x+0 ...divided by -3 on both sides. I put the zero there to show that in this case the b(y intercept ) is zero.
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Now, the coefficent in from of the x term is the slope. In our case it is
(-1/3)
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