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

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Answer 1 · 2018-06-07T21:25:29

$-1/5$ (slope), $-7$ ( $y$ -intercept)

We can rewrite the equation as

$y=-1/5x-7$

NOTE: $-1/5x$ is the same as $-x/5$

The good thing is that this equation is already in slope-intercept form

$y=mx+b$

where $m$ , the coefficient of $x$ , is the slope, and our constant $b$ , is the $y$ -intercept.

The coefficient on $x$ is $-1/5$ . This is our slope, and our constant is $-7$ . This is our $y$ -intercept.

Hope this helps!

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