Question

Isolate b for the literal equation y = mx + b

Answer 1

Given the equation:

$y=mx+b$

to isolate b from the equation, first we can substract mx on both sides of the equation to get the following:

$\begin{gathered} y-mx=mx+b-mx \\ \Rightarrow y-mx=b \end{gathered}$

therefore, b = y-mx