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What In algebra, find the slope of x+3y=6?

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First we put y on left side

x+3y=6
3y=-x+6 /:3
y=
- (1)/(3)x+2

y=ax+b
a is a slope
so a=
- (1)/(3)

User Petter Hesselberg
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the answer is a= -1/3
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