How would you find the slope of the line $3x-2y=4$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-07-20T01:54:20

Slope $m=3/2$

The given linear equation is in the form

$ax+by=c$

In such cases the formula to be used to calculate slope is - $(-a)/b$

Applying this formula, the slope is -

$3x-2y=4$
$m=(-3)/(-2)=3/2$

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