A line that is parallel to another has exactly the same slope as the other.
so a parallel line to that line above, will have the same slope hmmm what is the slope of <span>y=3/4x+2 anyway?
well, notice, since it's already in slope-intercept form </span>
This is fairly simple. Divide 2,871,000 by 10 and that's your answer!

Also, since you're dividing by a factor of 10 (or in this case, <em>10</em>) you can just take away as many places as are zeros in the number you're dividing from. This works for <em>10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, etc. </em>In this case, since there is only one zero in 10 you only take away one place marking, which gives you 287,100.
It's indepentent. In fact, the tar pit's temperature DEPENDS (dependent variable) by the air's temperature (independent variable).
You can draw a picture and you can find your answer but the answer is 1 1/3 by the way