How to convert algebraic equations?

Question

someone please help anything will do :)

how do you convert

2x-2y=12

in to the y=mx+b format?

And how would you graph it?

(please try to describe it in words )

thanks.

Answer 1

Get the "-2y" by itself on one side of the equation, and then divide both sides of the equation by -2.

What will remain is y=(something)x+(something).

The first "something" is the m (or the slope) and the second is the b (which is the y intercept).

Graph it by plotting the point (0,b) and then plotting one or two other points from there using the slope.

For example, if the y-intercept is 2 and the slope is 3/2, you would plot the point (0,2) and then plot the point that is 3 above and 2 to the right of (0,2). Connect these points and you have the line.