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

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Answer 1 · 2016-08-24T19:13:52

y-intercept is the constant -2
Slope is the coefficient of $x$ which is 3

consider the standard form $y=mx+c$ where m is the slope (gradient).

Comparing to $y=3x-2$ we find by that the slope $m = 3$

The y-intercept is when the graph crosses the y-axis. The y axis is at $x=0$ so we substitute $x=0$ and we get:

$y=3(0)-2$

$y=-2$

So the y-intercept is the constant - 2

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