How do you find slope and y intercept y=5?

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Answer 1 · 2017-12-09T14:20:19

Compare with general formula for slope-intercept form and get that $m = 0$ and $b = 5$

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

$y = mx + b$
$y = 5$

Somehow, $mx + b = 5$ . However, $x$ can be any value, making it unpredictable. Therefore, we could try setting $m = 0$ , and get:

$0x + b = 5 rarr b = 5$

Let's check! Comparing what we now have:

$y = 0x + 5 = 5$

And the original:

$y = 5$

Seems just right! $m = 0$ and $b = 5$ .