How do you find the slope given #3x + y = -2#?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-11T07:57:20

The slope is #-3#.

First, let's write the equation where #y# is by itself.

We have #3x + y = -2#.

To make #y# by itself, we need to subtract both sides by #3x# and we get:

#y = -2 - 3x#

There are many definitions of slope, and one of them is rise over run or the change of y over the change of x.

The slope is the value in front of #x#, which is #-3#.

Hope this helps!