How do you find the slope of $y = 2 x - 1$ $y=2x-1$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-06-23T15:08:07

Use the slope-intercept form to find that slope = 2.

This equation of a line is in slope-intercept form, where:

$y = m x + b$ $y=mx+b$

where $m$ $m$ is slope and $b$ $b$ is the y-intercept.

In this case, $m = 2$ $m=2$

How do you find the slope of y=2x−1y=2x-1?