Question

Given the line below.

Answer 1

The slope of that line is -1, so m = -1.

The point you were told to use is (-2,2), so point-slope form starts as:

   ( y - 2 ) = -1 • ( x - (-2) )

But we'd clean up that x-(-2) to be x+2.

   y - 2 = -1 ( x+2 )