What is the slope of $Y=-1/4x+2$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-06-19T18:41:14

This equation is already in slope-intercept form, so you can read the slope as the coefficient of $x$ , that is $-1/4$

The slope-intercept form of the equation of a line is:

$y = mx+c$

where $m$ is the slope and $c$ is the intercept (with the $y$ axis).

Any line parallel to this line will have the same slope $-1/4$ .

Any line perpendicular to it will have slope $-1/m = 4$

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