How do you calculate the slope, x intercept, and y intercept of the following equation: $2y=4x -2$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-07-13T22:49:30

You can divide everything (at both sides) by $2$

$->y=2x-1$
Which will give you $2$ as the slope and $(0,-1)$ as the $y$ -intercept.

The $x$ -intercept is when $y=0$
$0=2x-1->2x=1->x=1/2->(1/2,0)$
graph{2x-1 [-11.25, 11.25, -5.625, 5.625]}

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