How do you find slope and intercepts to graph $-3x-5y=6$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-11-04T00:35:28

Slope $=-3/5$
Y-Intercept $=-6/5$

The question cannot be $-3y -5y = 6$ .

So I changed it to $-3x -5y = 6$ .

But the principle you are going to apply is the same.

The given equation $-3x -5y = 6$ . is in the form of

$ax +by=c$

In such case the the formula to find slope is $m=-a/b$

We shall apply this in our problem

$m=-(-3)/(-5)=-3/5$

To find the y-intercept, put $x=0$ and solve the equation

At $x=0; -3(0)-5y=6$
$-5y=6$
$y=-6/5$

How do you find slope and intercepts to graph -3x-5y=6-3x-5y=6?