How do you find the slope and intercept of $y=-1/7x-4/5$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-01-07T08:46:53

$-1/7 and -4/5$

the equation of a straight line is y = mx + c where m represents the slope and c is the y-intercept.

the given equation is in the form y = mx + c and by comparison

we can see that $m = -1/7 and c = -4/5$

How do you find the slope and intercept of y=-1/7x-4/5y=-1/7x-4/5?