How do you find the slope and y-intercept for the line $y = 5 – 1/2x$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-09-22T21:42:50

The slope is $-1/2$ , the $y$ -intercept is $5$ .

You are in a lucky case for solving this exercise: when a line is written in the form

$y=mx+q$ , you automatically get that $m$ is the slope and $q$ is the $y$ -intercept (the form $y=mx+q$ is indeed called "slope-intercept form").

How do you find the slope and y-intercept for the line y = 5 – 1/2xy = 5 – 1/2x?