How do you find the slope and intercept of $y=-1/2x +4$ ?

Question

1709 views around the world

You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License

Answer 1 · 2016-02-06T04:31:23

Slope: $-1/2$
Y-intercept: $4$

The equation of the line is given in Slope-Intercept Form.
This means that the equation is set up as follows:

$y=mx+b$

Where:
$y$ is the $y$ value or $f(x)$
$x$ is the $x$ value
$m$ is the slope
and $b$ is the $y$ -intercept

So

$m=-1/2$
and
$b=4$

How do you find the slope and intercept of y=-1/2x +4y=-1/2x +4?