How do you find the slope and y intercept for $y = - 2$ $y=-2$ ?

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How do you find the slope and y intercept for $y = - 2$ $y=-2$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-07-01T01:28:58

$y = - 2$ $y=-2$
$XXXX$ $color(white)("XXXX")$ has a slope of $0$ $0$ and
$XXXX$ $color(white)("XXXX")$ a y-intercept of $(- 2)$ $(-2)$

Explanation:

The fact that $y = - 2$ $y=-2$ has a slope of $0$ $0$ follows from the observation that it is a horizontal line.
The y-intercept is the value of $y$ $y$ when $x = 0$ $x=0$ ; since $y = - 2$ $y=-2$ for all values of $x$ $x$ (including $0$ $0$ ), the y-intercept is $- 2$ $-2$

Alternately
you could rewrite the equation into slope intercept form:
$XXXX$ $color(white)("XXXX")$ $y = m x + b$ $y=mx+b$ with a slope of $m$ $m$ and a y-intercept of $b$ $b$

$y = - 2$ $y=-2$ is equivalent to
$XXXX$ $color(white)("XXXX")$ $y = 0 \cdot x + (- 2)$ $y = 0*x +(-2)$ which is slope-intercept form
$XXXX$ $color(white)("XXXX")$ $XXXX$ $color(white)("XXXX")$ with slope $0$ $0$ and y-intercept $- 2$ $-2$

Answer 2 · 2015-07-01T01:33:02

Slope $= 0$ $=0$
Y-intercept $= - 2$ $=-2$

Explanation:

Your equation represents a horizontal line passing through $y = - 2$ $y=-2$ with slope equal to zero (it is horizontal so it is neither going up nor down).

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