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

2 Answers
Jul 23, 2018

See a solution process below:

Explanation:

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)

Jul 23, 2018

-3

Explanation:

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!