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What is the slope of the graph of in the xy-plane?
Explanation
The correct answer is . A linear equation can be written in the form , where is the slope of the graph of the equation in the xy-plane and is the y-intercept. Distributing the in the equation yields . Combining like terms on the right-hand side of this equation yields . This equation is in the form , where and . Therefore, the slope of the graph of the given equation in the xy-plane is . Note that 44/3, 14.66, and 14.67 are examples of ways to enter a correct answer.