Question

What is the slope of the line whose equation is –48 = 2x − 8y?

Answer 1

-48 = 2x - 8y
-24 = x - 4y
4y = x + 24
y = (1/4)x + 6

Slope of the line
1/4

Answer 2

The general equation of a line is written as:

y = mx+b 

where m is the slope and b is the y-intercept. We need to write the equation given above in that said form to identify the slope.

–48 = 2x − 8y
(8y = 2x + 48)1/8
y = 1/4x + 6

Therefore, the slope is 1/4.