Math 8 Slope help - Please Help!
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Do you know slope intercept form?
What is it?
Can you convert the above equation into slope intercept form?
ok I do believe that slope intercept form is: y=mx+b. Converting that into this form: I have no idea how to do that. Can you help me?
Thanks, Help is greatly appreciated.
If you were asked to solve \(\displaystyle 4x + 3 = x + 9\), how would you do it?
You would isolate x on the left side of the equation: \(\displaystyle 4x - x = 9 - 3 \implies 3x = 6.\)
Then you would simplify: \(\displaystyle \dfrac{3x}{3} = \dfrac{6}{3} \implies x = 2.\)
You do the same thing when you want to transform an equation in x and y into the form of y = something in terms of x.
First isolate y on the left hand side of the equation. What do you get?
Now simplify. What do you get?
You should have something now in the form of y = mx + b. Is m or is b the slope?
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Slope-Intercept form has symbol y on one side and everything else on the other side.
Solve the given equation for y. In other words, isolate y on one side.
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Your function is of the form
Ax + By = C
to convert it to slope-intercept form:
By = - Ax + C
y = (-A/B) x + (C/B)
Ax + By = C
to convert it to slope-intercept form:
By = - Ax + C
y = (-A/B) x + (C/B)