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

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Answer 1 · 2015-12-05T21:42:06

The slope is the coefficient on the x-variable ...

In this problem, the coefficient is 2, so the slope $= 2$ $=2$

The y-intercept happens when $x = 0$ $x=0$ , so for this problem:

$y (0) = - 1$ $y(0)=-1$

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