How do you find the slope and intercept of $3x-2y= -6$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-07-07T20:41:22

The slope is $3/2$ the intercept is $3$ .

To find the slope and the intercept you have to put the equation in the form $y=mx+q$ , then $m$ is the slope and $q$ is the intercept.

The first step is to keep the term with the $y$ on the left and the others on the right

$3x-2y=-6$

$-2y=-3x-6$

and now we divide for the coefficient of $y$ that is $-2$

$y=3/2x+6/2$

$y=3/2x+3$

The slope is $3/2$ the intercept is $3$ .

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