How do you find the slope and intercept of $y=1.4x-7$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-13T04:02:46

Slope is 1.4, Y-intercept is -7

In linear equations of the form $y=mx+b$ , " $m$ " gives the slope and " $b$ " the intercept.
In $y=1.4x-7$ , $m=1.4$ and $b=-7$ .

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