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

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Answer 1 · 2018-08-11T17:13:15

$m = 5 and c = 0$ $m=5 and c =0$

An equation which has an $x$ $x$ term, a $y$ $y$ term and a number term (or at least two of these), represents a straight line graph.

The form $y = m x + c$ $y=mx +c$ is useful because the slope, $m$ $m$ ,
and the $y$ $y$ -intercept, $c$ $c$ , can be read off immediately,

Read $y = 5 x$ $y= 5x$ as meaning $y = \frac{5}{1} x + 0$ $y = 5/1x +0$

The slope is therefore $\frac{5}{1}$ $5/1$ and the $y$ $y$ -intercept is $0$ $0$

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