How do you find the slope and intercept of $y = 0.5x$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-05-23T01:44:53

The slope is $1/2$ and the intercept is $(0,0)$ .

The slope is whatever number is next to $x$ and the intercept is other the number that is either added or subtracted from the $x$ term. Just remember

$y = mx+b$

The slope is $m$ as a fraction and the intercept is $(0,b)$ .

So for example, if you have

$y=4x+7$

the slope would be $4/1$ (rise $4$ , run $1$ ) and the intercept would be $(0,7)$ .

How do you find the slope and intercept of y = 0.5xy = 0.5x?