How do you find the slope of a line $30 x - 5 y = 5.6$ $30x - 5y = 5.6$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-07-19T04:20:16

The slope is $6$ $6$ .

To find the slope, first make the equation in slope-intercept form (shown below) so that we can find the slope easier:
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$30 x - 5 y = 5.6$ $30x - 5y = 5.6$

Subtract $30 x$ $color(blue)(30x)$ from both sides of the equation:
$30x - 5y quadcolor(blue)(-quad30x) = 5.6 quadcolor(blue)(-quad30x)$

$-5y = 5.6 - 30x$

Divide both sides by $color(blue)(-5)$ :
$(-5y)/color(blue)(-5) = (5.6-30x)/color(blue)(-5)$

$y = -1.12 + 6x$

$y = 6x - 1.12$

We know that the slope is the value multiplied by the $x$ , meaning that the slope is $6$ .

Hope this helps!

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