Question

How do you calculate the slope, x intercept, and y intercept of the following equation: `y = x + 3`?

Answer 1

Slope is `1`
The y-intercept is `3`

Explanation:

A linear equation in the form
`color(white)("XXXX")` `y = mx+b`
is in slope intercept form
`color(white)("XXXX")`with slope `=m`
`color(white)("XXXX")`and y intercept `=b`

`y = x +3`
Which could be written as `y = 1x+3`
is in the slope intercept form.

So we can read the values of the slope and y intercept directly from the equation.