How do you find the slope given x-y=5xy=5?

1 Answer
Jul 31, 2017

The slope is 11

Explanation:

x-y=5xy=5

Write the equation in the form y =color(red)(m)x+cy=mx+c

x-5 = y " "rarr y = x-5x5=y y=x5

In this form, called the slope-intercept form, you can read off the values of the slope and the yy-intercept without doing any working.

color(red)(m)m gives the slope. We have y =color(red)(1)x-5y=1x5

So the slope is color(red)(1)1