How do you find the slope for y=3?

1 Answer
May 18, 2015

You can either:
recognize that this is a horizontal line that will have slope equal to zero;
or:
use the definition of slope as #m=(Deltay)/(Deltax)=(y_2-y_1)/(x_2-x_1)#
choose two values for #x#, say, #x=3# and #x=5# the values of #y# will be, in both cases, #y=3# (unaffected by the change of #x#) so you get:
#m=(3-3)/(5-3)=0/2=0#