Question

What is the slope of the line given by the equation below? Enter your answer as an integer or fraction in lowest terms.

y = x

Answer 1

The equation of a line can be expressed as y=mx+b where m is the slope and b is the y-intercept. Since this equation is y=x, it's slope is 1 and the y-intercept is 0.

Answer 2

For an equation in slope-intercept form
\[y=ax+b\text{ -or- }y=mx+b\]
a or m represents slope. This equation would be fully written as
\[y=1x+0\]
so your slope is 1.