How do you find the slope-intercept of y - 6 = - 4xy−6=−4x?

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Caelen k.
May 24, 2018

Problem: y-6=-4xy−6=−4x

graph{y=-4x -6 [-9.83, 10.17, -7.92, 2.08]}

Answer: y=-4x+6y=−4x+6

Explanation:

y = mx + by=mx+b

So, what you have is y-6 =-4xy−6=−4x, but to make it in slope-intercept form, it needs to look like y = mx + by=mx+b. bb is where the line intercepts yy, and mm is what the angle is.

y-6=-4cy−6=−4c

Slope-intercept form is where you have yy on one side and mx+bmx+b on the other side of the equation (on either side of the equal sign).
So to get yy on one sode of the equation alone, you need to get rid of -6−6. To do so, you add +6+6 to each side of the equation and you have y=-4x+6y=−4x+6.

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