How do you find the slope and intercept of #y=3x+2#?
2 Answers
Feb 11, 2017
The line equation is: y = slope * x + y-intercept. Thus the slope is 3 and the y-intercept is 2.
Feb 11, 2017
Explanation:
The equation of a line in
#color(blue)"slope-intercept form"# is.
#color(red)(bar(ul(|color(white)(2/2)color(black)(y=mx+b)color(white)(2/2)|)))#
where m represents the slope and b, the y-intercept.
#y=3x+2" is in this form"#
#rArr"slope "=m=3" and y-intercept "=b=2#
graph{3x+2 [-10, 10, -5, 5]}