How do you find the slope of $y = \frac{1}{2} x$ $y=1/2x$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-08-21T11:57:19

$m = \frac{1}{2}$ $m = 1/2$

As it is written, the equation of the line actually mathces sloper-intercept form, which for a general line looks like this

$y = m x + b$ $color(blue)(y = mx + b)" "$ , where

$b$ $b$ - the $y$ $y$ -intercept;
$m$ $m$ - the slope of the line.

Your equation is

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

As you can see, your line has $b = 0$ $b = 0$ and

$m = \frac{1}{2}$ $m = color(green)(1/2)$

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