What is the slope of $11=-57y+7x$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-15T21:58:10

$7/57$

We can change this equation into slope-intercept form

$y=mx+b$

Where $m$ is the slope, what we're looking for, and $b$ is the y-intercept.

We can change our equation, $11=-57y+7x$ into slope-intercept form by subtracting $7x$ to both sides. We get:

$-57y=-7x+11$

Now we divide everything by $-57$ to isolate $y$ , which gets us:

$y=7/57x-11/57$

The coefficient on the $x$ term is $7/57$ , therefore this is our slope.

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