How do you find the slope and intercept of $\frac{3}{4} x - y = 4$ $3/4x - y = 4$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-19T22:08:55

transform the equation into the y intercept form
$y = m x + b$ $y =mx +b$ the m will be the slope and the b the y intercept.

$\frac{3}{4} x - y = 4$ $3/4x -y = 4$ subtract $\frac{3}{4} x$ $3/4 x$ from both sides.

$\frac{3}{4} x - \frac{3}{4} x - y = - \frac{3}{4} x + 4$ $3/4x - 3/4x -y = -3/4 x + 4$ this gives

$- y = - \frac{3}{4} x + 4$ $-y = - 3/4x + 4$ divide both sides by -1#

$\frac{- 1 y}{- 1} = \frac{- \frac{3}{4} x}{- 1} + \frac{4}{- 1}$ $(-1y)/-1 = (-3/4x)/-1 + 4/-1$ This results in

$y = \frac{3}{4} x + - 4$ $y = 3/4 x + -4$

The m ( mountain ski slope) or slope is 3/4

The b ( the beginning) the y intercept is -4

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