How do you find the slope and intercept of $y=2x-3$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-15T22:41:23

Slope: 2
y-intercept: -3

This equation is in slope-intercept form, which is $y=mx+b$ .

$m " = the slope"$
$b " = the y-intercept"$

Now that you know this, you can apply it to the problem.

In the equation, $m = 2$ and $b = -3$ , so that means that the slope is $2$ (or $2/1$ ) and the y-intercept is $-3$

Note: The y-intercept is -3 because when you add a negative number, it's the same as subtracting it.

For example: $1+(-3) = (1-3)$

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