What is the slope and intercept of $3x+2y=6$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-08-16T17:44:45

slope $= m = -3/2$ and y-intercept $= c =3$

Change the equation into the form $y =color(red)(m)x+color(blue)(c)$

$3x+2y =6$

$2y = -3x +6$

$y = color(red)(-3/2)x+color(blue)(3)$

slope $= m = -3/2$ and y-intercept $= c =3$

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