How do you find the slope for $x+ y = 5$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-05-12T20:43:39

You can write it as: $y=-x+5$ (isolating $y$ ) and "read" the slope as the numerical coefficient of $x$ , i.e., $-1$ .

How do you find the slope for x+ y = 5x+ y = 5?