Question

What is the slope of the line represented by this equation?
-3x + 8y = 12

Answer 1

Explanation:

Turn the equation into a slope-intercept form equation:

`8y=3x+12`

Divide each side by 8 to simplify y:

`y=(3)/(8) x+1.5`

The slope is 3/8.

Using the format:

`y=mx+b`

3/8 is in place of m, the slope.