What is the slope of any line parallel to the line 8x+9y=3 in the standard (x, y) coordinate plane?

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Corey Nguyen

24 January, 02:36

What is the slope of any line parallel to the line 8x+9y=3 in the standard (x, y) coordinate plane?

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Marisol Bailey · Answer 1

As the lines are parallel all of them have the same slope, solve for y, y=3/9-8x/9, so the slope is the coefficient which accompaning the variable x, slope = - 8/9

Mallory Buck · Answer 2

It's slope would be

m = (y-9) / (x-8)