What is the slope of the line y = 2?

2 Answers
Jul 8, 2018

The slope of the line is 0.

Explanation:

Since the line is y = 2, that means it is a horizontal line. Slope is defined as "rise"/"run". Since it is horizontal, there is no rise, only a run, which is a constant, 2. Therefore, it is 0/2, or 0.

The slope of the line is 0.

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Jul 8, 2018

Explanation:

y=2 is a horizontal line, which has a slope of zero.

To make this more intuitive, slope is defined as change in y over change in x, and since we have an equation of the form

y=c

x is the only variable that is changing, as y is always equal to 2. Since we have no change in y, we have no "rise", therefore the slope is zero.

graph{y=0x+2 [-11.16, 11.34, -6.435, 4.815]}

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