How do you find the slope of a line $y=1/2x$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-06-08T17:06:04

Any linear equation of the form $y = mx+b$ is in slope-intercept form with a slope of $m$ (and a y-intercept of $b$ ).

$y = 1/2x$ is equivalent to $y = (1/2)x +0$ and is in this slope-intercept form with a slope of $(1/2)$

How do you find the slope of a line y=1/2xy=1/2x?