Question

What is the y-intercept of the line described by the equation below? y = 3x - 6

Answer 1

this is a line in the form y = mx + b, where b is the y intercept. In your equation above, 3 is the slope, the m value, and -6 is the y-intercept, the b value.

Answer 2

y-intercept of the line is, -6

Explanation:

Slope intercept form:

The equation of line is given by:

`y = mx+b` ....[1]

where,

m is the slope of the line

b is the y-intercept.

As per the statement:

Given the equation:

`y = 3x-6`

we can write this as:

`y =3x+(-6)`

On comparing with [1] we have;

m = 3 and b = -6

Therefore, the y-intercept of the line is, -6