SOLUTION: Find the equation of a line parallel to y=3x-4 and passing through (-1,1)

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Question 238144: Find the equation of a line parallel to y=3x-4 and passing through (-1,1)
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Determine the slope of the given line. Because the given line is already in slope-intercept form, you can determine the slope by inspection of the coefficient on the independent variable.

Determine the slope of the desired parallel line using:



Write an equation of the desired line using the point-slope form of the equation of a line:



where is the slope you determined in the second step above, and
are the coordinates of the given point.

If you have other instructions regarding the form of your answer, follow them. Otherwise, this is as far as you need to go. Note that this is AN equation of the desired line. You cannot find THE equation of a line because for any given line there are an infinite number of possible equivalent representations.

John