This means the line slopes downwards. Real Examples of Finding the Slope from a Linear Equation The slope of y 2x 1 is 2. In slope-intercept form m is the slope and b is the y-intercept.
The functions whose graph is a line are generally called linear functions in the context of calculus.
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