How do you find the slope for $y = -7x - 2$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-05-10T19:07:54

$=>-7$

For a linear equation of the form $y = mx+b$ , the $m$ is referred to as the slope of the line.

In this case, that would be $m=-7$ .

How do you find the slope for y = -7x - 2y = -7x - 2?