How do you find the slope of $2y+3x=-6$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-05-09T22:50:30

Write the equation in slope-intercept form: $y=mx+b$ , where $m$ is the slope, and $b$ is the y-intercept.

$2y+3x=-6$

Subtract $3x$ from both sides.

$2y=-3x-6$

Divide both sides by $2$ .

$y=(-3x)/(2)-(6)/(2)$ =

$y=-3/2x-3$ .

The slope, $m$ , is $-3/2x$ .

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