How do you find the slope of the line $x + 6 y = 12$ $x+6y=12$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-07-23T17:06:27

$- \frac{1}{6}$ $-1/6$

Isolate y.

$6 y = 12 - x$ $6y = 12 - x$

$y = 2 - \frac{1}{6} x$ $y = 2 - 1/6 x$

If $y = a x + b$ $y = ax + b$ , then slope $= a$ $= a$

How do you find the slope of the line x+6y=12x+6y=12x+6y=12?