What is the slope and intercept of $- 2 x + y = 6$ $-2x + y = 6$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-08-21T13:53:53

First step: re-write it - you want y as a function of x.

...which you can do in one step by adding 2x to each side:

$y = 2 x + 6$ $y = 2x + 6$

...this is the y = mx + b form, where m is the slope.

So your slope is 2.

The intercept is the value of y where x = 0, which is 6.

What is the slope and intercept of −2x+y=6-2x + y = 6?