Question

How do you find the slope and y-intercept for the line `y = (1/2)x + 3`?

Answer 1

Slope `=1/2` and `y-`intercept `= 3`

Explanation:

The equation of a straight line in slope and y-intercept form is:
`y=mx+c` where `m` is the slope of the line and `c` is the y-intercept.

In this example we have `y = (1/2)x + 3`

Note that this equation is already in slope and y-intercept form with `m=1/2 and c=3`

Hence, Slope `=1/2` and `y-`intercept `= 3`

We can observe this result by looking at the graph of `y` below.

graph{(1/2)x + 3 [-6.7, 3.164, -0.65, 4.282]}