What is the slope and y-intercept of this line $y + 6 = 2(x + 4)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-22T19:39:50

The slope is 2 and the y-intercept is 2.

Convert the given equation to slope-intercept form, which is:
$y = mx + b$

The slope will be represented by the letter $m$ (the coefficient of $x$ ) and $b$ will represent the y-intercept.

Simplify and solve for $y$ as follows:
$y+6 = 2(x + 4)$
$y+6 = 2x + 8$
$y = 2x + 2$

slope ( $m$ ): 2
y-intercept ( $b$ ): 2

What is the slope and y-intercept of this line y + 6 = 2(x + 4)y + 6 = 2(x + 4)?