Tom earned $166 last week and he worked for 24 hours.

Tom gets paid at the same hourly rate this week and worked 16 hours.

How much does Tom get paid this week?

Where m is the slope of the line and b is the y-intercept of the line, or the y-coordinate of the point at which the line crosses the y-axis. to write an equation in slope-intercept form, given a graph of that equation, pick two points on the line and use them to find the slope. this is the value of m in the equation.