Question

What is the slope of `62=-42y+14x`?

Answer 1

slope`= 1/3`

Explanation:

y = mx + c , is the equation of a straight line , where m ,

represents the gradient (slope ) and c , the y-intercept.

By rearranging the given equation into this form then

m and c may be extracted.

hence: 42y = 14x -62 and `y = 14/42 x - 62/42`

so `y = 1/3 x - 31/21`

By comparison of the 2 equations

`m = 1/3 , c = -31/21`