Question

How do you find the slope of a line parallel to `y=-8x+4`?

Answer 1

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Explanation:

This line is 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.

Therefore the slope of this line is: `color(red)(m = -8)`

Parallel lines have the same slope. Therefore, the slope of any line parallel to the line in the problem will have the same slope:

`color(red)(m = -8)`