How do you find the slope and intercept of #4x + 7y = 28#?
1 Answer
May 26, 2016
slope
y-intercept = 4
Explanation:
The equation of a line in
#color(blue)"slope-intercept form"# is
#color(red)(|bar(ul(color(white)(a/a)color(black)(y=mx+b)color(white)(a/a)|)))#
where m is the slope and b, the y-intercept.The advantage to having the equation in this form is that m and b can be extracted 'easily'.
now rearrange 4x + 7y = 28 into this form.
hence : 7y = -4x+28
divide both sides by 7
#(cancel(7) y)/cancel(7)=(-4)/7 x+(cancel(28)^4)/cancel(7)^1#
#rArry=-4/7x+4" is the equation"# thus slope
#=-4/7" and y-intercept"=4#