How do you find the slope for 5x-2y = 10?

1 Answer
May 17, 2015

To find the slope, rearrange into the standard form y=mx+c where m is the slope and c the intercept as follows:

First add 2y to both sides to get:

5x=10+2y

Next subtract 10 from both sides to get:

5x-10=2y

Now divide both sides by 2 to get:

(5/2)x-5 = y

In other words: y = (5/2)x-5.

Comparing with y=mx+c, the slope m is 5/2 = 2.5 (and the intercept c is -5).