SOLUTION: please explain how you get the answer find the slope and the y-intercept of the line 4x=-2y+7 thank you

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Question 355142: please explain how you get the answer
find the slope and the y-intercept of the line 4x=-2y+7
thank you
Found 2 solutions by Fombitz, mananth:
Answer by Fombitz(32388) About Me  (Show Source):
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Convert to the slope-intercept form of a line, y=mx%2Bb where m is the slope and b is the y-intercept.
4x=-2y%2B7
-2y=4x-7
y=-2x%2B7%2F2
Comparing,
m=-2
b=7%2F2
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Answer by mananth(16946) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
4x=-2y+7
rewrite the equation in the slope intercept form
y =mx+b
2y=-4x+7
/2
y=-2x +7/2
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m is the slope
so m= -2
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to get the y intercept plug x=0
so y = -2*0+7/2
y= 7/2
7/2 is the intercept.
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m.ananth@hotmail.ca