## anonymous one year ago (Will medal and fan with testimonial if helped.) What is the slope of the line whose equation is –48 = 2x − 8y?

1. steve816

Hi!, to find the slope, we have to change the equation to slope intercept form.$y=mx+b$

2. anonymous

How do we do that?

3. anonymous

And what does the "m" in the formula you just stated stand for.

4. anonymous

m stands for slope

5. anonymous

you have to solve for y to put it in the slope intercept form

6. anonymous

Alright.

7. anonymous

let me know what you get and i'll send how i did it

8. anonymous

Ok.

9. steve816

Let's do this shall we? $-48=2x-8y$ add 8y to both sides.$-48+8y=2x$ Now, we're going to add 48 to both sides in order to get the y alone.$8y=2x-48$ From here, we have to divide all numbers by 8, so that we have just y. $y=\frac{ 2 }{ 8 }x-\frac{ 48 }{ 8 }$ We can simplify this, so we get$y=\frac{ 1 }{ 4 }x+6$ Remember, m is the slope, so as you can see, the slope of the line would be $\frac{ 1 }{ 4 }$

10. steve816

That's it! That is the answer :) Hope I helped.

11. anonymous

Mind if I take a screenshot of your response to use later? @steve816

12. steve816

Sure!

13. anonymous

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14. anonymous

theres another just in case you need it lol

15. anonymous

Alright thank you.

16. steve816

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