For the equation y = -6x, what is the slope and y intercept? The formula is y = mx + B. I know that m = the slope and B = the y intercept. So in the equation y = -6x, what is the slope and y intercept? Is -6 the y intercept or the slope? Because if it's the slope, How am I suppose to figure out what the y intercept is? I have to make a graph too... Please help! I'm so confused !

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What would happen if we wrote your equation of

y = -6x as
y = -6x + 0 and compare it to y = mx+ b ?

In the equation y = -6x, the constant term -6 is the slope, not the y-intercept.

To identify the slope and y-intercept, let's rearrange the equation in the standard form, y = mx + b, where m represents the slope and b represents the y-intercept.

Given that y = -6x, we can rewrite the equation as:

y = -6x + 0

Now we can see that the slope, m, is -6, and the y-intercept, b, is 0.

To plot this equation on a graph, you can start by plotting the y-intercept, which is the point where the line intersects the y-axis. In this case, the y-intercept is at (0,0) because the equation is y = -6x + 0, indicating that the line passes through the origin (0,0).

Next, you can use the slope to determine additional points on the line. The slope of -6 means that for every increase of 1 in the x-coordinate, the y-coordinate decreases by 6. So, from the y-intercept point (0,0), you can plot another point by moving 1 unit to the right and 6 units down. This gives you the point (1, -6).

Using these two points, (0,0) and (1, -6), you can draw a straight line that represents the equation y = -6x.

Remember that the slope is negative in this case, indicating that the line has a downward slope from left to right.