Find the Slope of a Parallel Line x+6y=-7

$x + 6 y = - 7$

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.

$y = m x + b$

Subtract $x$ from both sides of the equation.

$6 y = - 7 - x$

Divide each term in $6 y = - 7 - x$ by $6$ and simplify.

Divide each term in $6 y = - 7 - x$ by $6$ .

$\frac{6 y}{6} = \frac{- 7}{6} + \frac{- x}{6}$

Simplify the left side.

Cancel the common factor of $6$ .

Cancel the common factor.

$\frac{6 y}{6} = \frac{- 7}{6} + \frac{- x}{6}$

Divide $y$ by $1$ .

$y = \frac{- 7}{6} + \frac{- x}{6}$

Simplify the right side.

Simplify each term.

Move the negative in front of the fraction.

$y = - \frac{7}{6} + \frac{- x}{6}$

Move the negative in front of the fraction.

$y = - \frac{7}{6} - \frac{x}{6}$

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

Reorder $- \frac{7}{6}$ and $- \frac{x}{6}$ .

$y = - \frac{x}{6} - \frac{7}{6}$

Reorder terms.

$y = - (\frac{1}{6} x) - \frac{7}{6}$

Remove parentheses.

$y = - \frac{1}{6} x - \frac{7}{6}$

Step 2

Using the slope-intercept form, the slope is $- \frac{1}{6}$ .

$m = - \frac{1}{6}$

Step 3

All lines that are parallel to $y = - \frac{1}{6} x - \frac{7}{6}$ have the same slope of $- \frac{1}{6}$ .

$m_{parallel} = - \frac{1}{6}$

Step 4