How do you find the slope and y-intercept for the line $y = 6 - x$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-09-26T09:14:34

The slope is $-1$ and the y-intercept is $6.$

The equation of the line in slope-intercept form is:

$y=mx+b$ , where the slope is $m$ and the y-intercept is $b.$

So in this case we have:

$y=6-x=>$ write in slope-intercept form:

$y=-x+6=>$ We can see that slope $=m=-1$

and the y-intercept $=b=6.$

How do you find the slope and y-intercept for the line y = 6 - xy = 6 - x?