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How do you calculate the slope, x intercept, and y intercept of the following equation: $y = x + 3$ $y = x + 3$ ?

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Jul 15, 2015

Slope is $1$ $1$
The y-intercept is $3$ $3$

Explanation:

A linear equation in the form
$XXXX$ $color(white)("XXXX")$ $y = m x + b$ $y = mx+b$
is in slope intercept form
$XXXX$ $color(white)("XXXX")$ with slope $= m$ $=m$
$XXXX$ $color(white)("XXXX")$ and y intercept $= b$ $=b$

$y = x + 3$ $y = x +3$
Which could be written as $y = 1 x + 3$ $y = 1x+3$
is in the slope intercept form.

So we can read the values of the slope and y intercept directly from the equation.

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