Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
- Before beginning, I'm going to show the guideline for slope-intercept form for linear equations:
· Slope-Intercept Form:
- slope; the rotation of the line
- the line's -intercept; where the line hits the -axis.
· Both and are constant integers whose value ranges from -∞ ⇒ ∞, all real numbers.
· and are values that depend on each other's value; is how you would see them written on a number line.
- With this in mind, let's look at our current equation.
- It seems that our equation is not in a form that could easily show us what it's rotation is, slope, or where it hits the -axis, so we're going to have to rearrange our equation so that it follows the slope-intercept guideline shown above.
- My first step was to move any values that are neither being multiplied nor divided by to the other side of the equation. In this case, is being added to , so by adding the reciprocal of to both sides, I can move it to the other side.
- Now our equation is starting to look somewhat like the guideline for slope-intercept form; all we need to do now is get rid of the next to the by dividing.
- Almost there. All that's left is simplification and we're done! goes into two times, and goes into negative eighteen times, so our final, simplified equation is:
- By looking at our guideline, where is slope and is the -intercept, we can determine that:
The slope of is .
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