{"id":231061,"date":"2025-06-10T12:02:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=231061"},"modified":"2025-06-10T12:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:02:42","slug":"what-is-the-slope-of-the-line-3x-4y-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/10\/what-is-the-slope-of-the-line-3x-4y-12\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the slope of the line 3x &#8211; 4y = 12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is the slope of the line 3x &#8211; 4y = 12? ( ) A. 3 B. 34 C. 43 D. -43 E. -34<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-0-color\">The correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The equation of the line given is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3x\u22124y=123x &#8211; 4y = 12<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To determine the slope, we need to rewrite the equation in <strong>slope-intercept form<\/strong>, which is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>y=mx+by = mx + b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>where <strong>m<\/strong> represents the slope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 1: Solve for yy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Start by isolating yy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u22124y=\u22123x+12-4y = -3x + 12<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Divide everything by <strong>-4<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>y=34x\u22123y = \\frac{3}{4}x &#8211; 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 2: Identify the slope<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Comparing with y=mx+by = mx + b, we see that <strong>m = \\frac{3}{4}<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since none of the answer choices directly match 34\\frac{3}{4}, let&#8217;s analyze the given options. If there was an error in listing the choices, the closest correct representation would be <strong>3\/4<\/strong>, which is equivalent to <strong>0.75<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The slope of a line represents the rate at which yy changes for every unit change in xx. In this case, the slope is <strong>3\/4<\/strong>, meaning for every 4 units moved horizontally (in the xx-direction), the line moves <strong>3 units up<\/strong> (in the yy-direction).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slope determines whether a line is <strong>increasing<\/strong> or <strong>decreasing<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Positive slope<\/strong> (34\\frac{3}{4}) means the line rises as xx increases.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Negative slope<\/strong> (such as -3\/4) would indicate a falling line.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Since <strong>none of the options match <\/strong>34\\frac{3}{4}, there might be an error in the multiple-choice values given.the correct slope is 34\\frac{3}{4}.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/learnexams-banner5-207.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-231062\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the slope of the line 3x &#8211; 4y = 12? ( ) A. 3 B. 34 C. 43 D. -43 E. -34 The correct Answer and Explanation is: The equation of the line given is: 3x\u22124y=123x &#8211; 4y = 12 To determine the slope, we need to rewrite the equation in slope-intercept form, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}