How do you find the slope and y intercept for: $x-y =4$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-10-18T09:42:44

$m = 1$

$b = -4$

First, change the form of $x - y = 4$ into $y = mx + b$

$-y = -x + 4$

$y = x - 4$

$m$ is the slope and $b$ is the y-intercept.

it is understandable that the $x$ has a coefficient of 1, so the $m$ is $1$ . and the y-intercept( $b$ ) is $-4$ .

How do you find the slope and y intercept for: x-y =4x-y =4?