How do you find the slope of $y=(-3x)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-07-23T21:07:59

See a solution process below:

We can rewrite the equation as:

$y = -3x + 0$

This equation is now in the slope-intercept form. The slope-intercept form of a linear equation is: $y = color(red)(m)x + color(blue)(b)$

Where $color(red)(m)$ is the slope and $color(blue)(b)$ is the y-intercept value.

For: $y = color(red)(-3)x + color(blue)(0)$ the slope is: $color(red)(m = -3)$

Answer 2 · 2018-07-23T21:22:00

$-3$

This equation can be rewritten as

$y=-3x+0$

Writing it in this way puts it into more obvious slope-intercept form

$y=mx+b$ , where the coefficient on the $x$ term is the slope.

We see that the coefficient on $x$ , is $-3$ . This is our slope.

Hope this helps!

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