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Slope intercept form y=m x + b what is m equal to and what is b equal to?

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M is slope for example 5
B is y intercept for example (0, 7)
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m in y=mx+b is the slope of the line. This is because you are increasing x by the slope each time.

b in y=mx+b is the y-intercept. This is because this is where the line basically starts.


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