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

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Answer 1 · 2016-01-12T13:47:44

slope = 2 , y-intercept = 3

One of the forms of the equation of a straight line is y = mx + c where m represents the slope and c, the y-intercept.

In this question the equation y = 2x + 3 is in this form and by directly

comparing y = 2x + 3 with y = mx + c we obtain : m = 2 and c = 3 .

This diagram shows the equation y = 2x + 3
graph{2x+3 [-10, 10, -5, 5]}

How do you find the slope & y-intercept of the equation y = 2x + 3y=2x+3y = 2x + 3?