What is the slope of the line?

Question

y+1=3(x-4)

Answer 1

The equation is in point-slope form, so we can rewrite it in slope-intercept form (y=mx+b) by solving for y:

y + 1 = 3(x - 4)
y + 1 = 3x - 12
y = 3x - 12 - 1
y = 3x - 13

The slope of the line is the coefficient of x, which is 3.