How do you find the slope for $- 3 x + y = 1$ $-3x + y = 1$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-05-11T23:18:46

Write it as $y = 3 x + 1$ $y=3x+1$ (isolating $y$ $y$ ) and "read" the slope as the numerical coefficient of $x$ $x$ , i.e., $3$ $3$ .

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