Question

Help please(: -3x + 2y = 8 change the equation into slope-intercept form. Be sure to show all of your work. Identify the slope and y-intercept of the equation.

Answer 1

ok, so we have to rearrange the equation to y = mx + b

Answer 2

what should we do first?

Answer 3

i dont kno thts the only thing i need help with, changing it to sope-intercept form lol

Answer 4

alright, but to get y on the left side by itself...what do we do?

Answer 5

if we have to do the opposite to cancel it out...

Answer 6

and we have to get rid of -3x...

Answer 7

how would we cancel out -3x? what's the opposite?

Answer 8

add it somewhere lol?? sorry im hopeless lol jk

Answer 9

oh 2y?

Answer 10

you were right, we have to add it :) add 3x to both sides of the equation. on the left, it would cancel out

Answer 11

the equation would look like this now: 2y = 3x + 8. so you can see that we're really close to our answer

Answer 12

how do you get rid of the 2 in front of the y?

Answer 13

did you get the answer already or do you not understand? :/

Answer 14

sorry i had a phone call with my mum, but okay i see. how do u get ride of y o.O

Answer 15

don't get rid of y lol. we need y in the equation. remember, y = mx + b. we have to get rid of the 2 in front of the y. how do we do that?

Answer 16

oh ops lol okay lets see...ummm...

Answer 17

2y means 2 times y. if we have to do the opposite, what do we do?

Answer 18

divide both side by 2 and get 3/2x+4?

Answer 19

the first part was right. after we divide, we get: y = 1.5x + 4

Answer 20

which would be our answer :)

Answer 21

lol yeah the same as 3/2 (:

Answer 22

oh right

Answer 23

sorry, i wrote down 1.5. i didn't even think as 3/2 as the same thing

Answer 24

haha its okay but thanks again the last thing u helped me with was the same as this kinda i feel stupid xD

Answer 25

it's alright :) you're still learning

Answer 26

haha yeah true xD