Question 525173
The nationality of your teacher shouldn't affect your ability to learn; you'll have to learn to cope with it. The high school I go to has teachers that are mostly Turkish or Russian.


The equation "y = mx + b" is simply a *general* form of a line. For example, 3x - y = 8 becomes y = 3x - 8 (after some algebraic manipulation), in which m = 3 (i.e. the slope is 3) and the y-intercept is -8 (i.e. the graph crosses the y-axis at (0,-8)).