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The equation y=my+b is the slope- intercept form of a linear equation solve y=mc+b for m

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We need to leave m alone on the right hand side, so let's move everything else to the left hand side.

First of all, we can subtract b from both sides to get


y-b = mc

Now, we can divide both sides by c to get


(y-b)/(c)=m

And so we solved the expression for m, because we have written an expression in the form
m=\ldots, where the right hand side doesn't depend on m.

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