How do you find the slope and y intercept for y= -8/9x -10/3?

1 Answer
Mar 4, 2016

The slope of this equation is (-8/9)
The y-intercept is ( 0 , (-10)/3)

Explanation:

The equation of a straight line can be represented in what we call the slope, intercept form, y = mx + b. When the equation is written in this form, the value of m is the slope of the equation. The y-intercept is the value of b . By comparing your equation to the equation y = mx + b we see that the value of m (the slope) is -8/9. The value of b, (the y-intercept) is -10/9, which is represented by the ordered pair ( 0 , (-10)/3).