How do you find the slope and y intercept for $y=(2/3)x-7$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-05-31T01:59:54

The equation of a straight line in slope-intercept form is $y=mx+b$ , where $m$ is the slope, and $b$ is the y-intercept.

Your equation is already in point-intercept form: $y=2/3x-7$ .

The slope, $m$ , is $2/3$ , and the y-intercept, $b$ , is $-7$ .

How do you find the slope and y intercept for y=(2/3)x-7y=(2/3)x-7?