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For the equation 6x - 2y = 24, what is the slope and the y-intercept?

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Solution

For this case we have the following equation:

6x-2y= 24

We can rewrite the expression in the following way:

y = mx+b

2y = 6x -24

If we divide both sides by 2 we got:

y= 3x -12

Then the slope is m=3 and the intercept is b= -12

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