How do you find the slope given $3x + y = -2$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-11T07:57:20

The slope is $-3$ .

First, let's write the equation where $y$ is by itself.

We have $3x + y = -2$ .

To make $y$ by itself, we need to subtract both sides by $3x$ and we get:

$y = -2 - 3x$

There are many definitions of slope, and one of them is rise over run or the change of y over the change of x.

The slope is the value in front of $x$ , which is $-3$ .

Hope this helps!

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