How do you find the slope and intercept of $x + y = - 2$ $x+y=-2$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-01-10T12:47:34

Rearrange into form: $y = m x + c$ $y=mx+c$
Read off $m$ $m$ as slope, $c$ $c$ as $y$ $y$ -intercept

As your equation is linear, rearrange it into the form:

$y = m x + c$ $y=mx+c$

$c$ $c$ is the $y$ $y$ -intercept

$m$ $m$ is the gradient, or slope.

Read off the answers.

For yours:

$y = - x - 2$ $y=-x-2$

$m = - 1$ $m=-1$

$c = - 2$ $c=-2$

How do you find the slope and intercept of x+y=−2x+y=-2?