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

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Answer 1 · 2018-06-07T21:25:29

$- \frac{1}{5}$ $-1/5$ (slope), $- 7$ $-7$ ( $y$ $y$ -intercept)

We can rewrite the equation as

$y = - \frac{1}{5} x - 7$ $y=-1/5x-7$

NOTE: $- \frac{1}{5} x$ $-1/5x$ is the same as $- \frac{x}{5}$ $-x/5$

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

$y = m x + b$ $y=mx+b$

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

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

Hope this helps!

How do you find the slope and y intercept of y=−x5−7y= - x/5-7?