How do you find the slope of the line $2 x + 3 y = 7$ $2x + 3y = 7$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-04-18T15:03:11

Rearrange your equation to isolate $y$ $y$ :
$y = - \frac{2}{3} x + \frac{7}{3}$ $y=-2/3x+7/3$
And "read" the slope as the coefficient of $x$ $x$ .

How do you find the slope of the line 2x+3y=72x + 3y = 7?