How do you find the slope of the line $y = - 3 x + 2$ $y = -3x + 2$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-08-03T11:20:27

The slope is $- 3$ $-3$ .

Your equation is in the slope-intercept form $y = m x + c$ $y=mx+c$ where the coefficient $m$ $m$ represents the slope. i.e.:
$m = - 3$ $m=-3$

How do you find the slope of the line y = -3x + 2y=−3x+2y = -3x + 2?