What is the slope of $y= -3$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-09-26T04:30:07

$m = 0$

$y = -3$

Can be re-written in slope-intercept form as

$y = 0x - 3$

Hence, the slope is 0.

We can also compute for the slope,

$m = (y_1 - y_2)/(x_1 - x_2)$

with

$y_1 = y_2 = -3$

and any arbitrary value for $x_1$ , $x_2$ . Just make sure to use different values for $x_1$ , $x_2$ . As an example, let's use

$x_1 = 1000$
$x_2 = 999$

$m = (-3 - -3)/(1000 - 999)$

$=> m = 0/1$

$=> m = 0$

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