How do you find the slope given 2x + 5y = 10?

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How do you find the slope given 2x + 5y = 10?

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Answer 1 · 2018-05-24T00:31:08

$- \frac{2}{5}$ $-2/5$

Explanation:

To find the slope of a straight line, we must convert the equation into the form of $y = m x + b$ $y=mx+b$ , and then look at the value of $m$ $m$ , which will be its slope.

So here:

$2 x + 5 y = 10$ $2x+5y=10$

$5 y = 10 - 2 x$ $5y=10-2x$

$5 y = - 2 x + 10$ $5y=-2x+10$

$y = \frac{- 2 x + 10}{5}$ $y=(-2x+10)/5$

$y = - \frac{2}{5} x + 2$ $y=-2/5x+2$

$:.$ The slope is $-2/5$ .

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