How do you find the slope of y=-1/2x +4?

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Answer 1 · 2015-08-14T20:39:25

$m = - \frac{1}{2}$ $m = -1/2$

You can find the slope of this line by using the equation of a line in slope-intercept form, which for a general equation of a line looks like this

$y = m x + b$ $color(blue)(y = mx + b)$ , where

$m$ $m$ - the slope of the line;
$b$ $b$ - the $y$ $y$ -coordinate of the $y$ $y$ -intercept.

In your case, the equation of the line is

$y = - \frac{1}{2} x + 4$ $y = -1/2 x + 4$

As you can see, the slope will be equal to

$m = - \frac{1}{2}$ $m = -1/2$