How do you find the slope for y=3?

1 Answer
May 18, 2015

You can either:
recognize that this is a horizontal line that will have slope equal to zero;
or:
use the definition of slope as m=(Deltay)/(Deltax)=(y_2-y_1)/(x_2-x_1)
choose two values for x, say, x=3 and x=5 the values of y will be, in both cases, y=3 (unaffected by the change of x) so you get:
m=(3-3)/(5-3)=0/2=0