Find the Slope of a Parallel Line -8x-7y=9

$- 8 x - 7 y = 9$

Step 1

Rewrite in slope-intercept form.

The slope-intercept form is $y = m x + b$ , where $m$ is the slope and $b$ is the y-intercept.

$y = m x + b$

Add $8 x$ to both sides of the equation.

$- 7 y = 9 + 8 x$

Divide each term in $- 7 y = 9 + 8 x$ by $- 7$ and simplify.

Divide each term in $- 7 y = 9 + 8 x$ by $- 7$ .

$\frac{- 7 y}{- 7} = \frac{9}{- 7} + \frac{8 x}{- 7}$

Simplify the left side.

Cancel the common factor of $- 7$ .

Cancel the common factor.

$\frac{- 7 y}{- 7} = \frac{9}{- 7} + \frac{8 x}{- 7}$

Divide $y$ by $1$ .

$y = \frac{9}{- 7} + \frac{8 x}{- 7}$

Simplify the right side.

Simplify each term.

Move the negative in front of the fraction.

$y = - \frac{9}{7} + \frac{8 x}{- 7}$

Move the negative in front of the fraction.

$y = - \frac{9}{7} - \frac{8 x}{7}$

Write in $y = m x + b$ form.

Reorder $- \frac{9}{7}$ and $- \frac{8 x}{7}$ .

$y = - \frac{8 x}{7} - \frac{9}{7}$

Reorder terms.

$y = - (\frac{8}{7} x) - \frac{9}{7}$

Remove parentheses.

$y = - \frac{8}{7} x - \frac{9}{7}$

Step 2

Using the slope-intercept form, the slope is $- \frac{8}{7}$ .

$m = - \frac{8}{7}$

Step 3

All lines that are parallel to $y = - \frac{8}{7} x - \frac{9}{7}$ have the same slope of $- \frac{8}{7}$ .

$m_{parallel} = - \frac{8}{7}$

Step 4