How do you find the slope and intercept of y + x = 0 ?

1 Answer
Mar 31, 2017

See the entire solution process below:

Explanation:

Solve for y to transform the equation to slope-intercept form. The slope-intercept form of a linear equation is: y = color(red)(m)x + color(blue)(b)

Where color(red)(m) is the slope and color(blue)(b) is the y-intercept value.

y + x = 0

y + x - color(red)(x) = 0 - color(red)(x)

y + 0 = -color(red)(x)#

y = color(red)(-1)x + color(blue)(0)

Therefore:

The slope is: color(red)(m = -1)

The y-ntercept is: color(blue)(b = 0) or (0, 0)