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What is the slope of $x-2y=2$ ?

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Mar 24, 2015

$x - 2y = 2$ can be rewritten as
$y = 1/2 x -1$
which is an equation of the form
$y=mx + b$
where $m$ is the slope (and $b$ is the y-intercept)

So the slope of $x -2y=2$
is $1/2$

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