How do you find the slope and intercept of $y = x - 5$ $y = x - 5$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-28T23:47:47

The slope is $1$ $1$ and the $y$ $y$ -intercept is $- 5$ $-5$ .

Slope: since no coefficient for $x$ $x$ is present, it is $1$ $1$ . Since it is $1$ $1$ , it does not have to be written in the equation.

$y$ $y$ -intercept: the $y$ $y$ -intercept is $b$ $b$ as in the slope-intercept form

$y = m x + b$ $y = mx + b$

( $m$ $m$ is the slope)

How do you find the slope and intercept of y = x - 5y=x−5y = x - 5?