How do you find the slope of a line parallel to $9x-5y=4$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-09-17T16:23:22

$color(red)(m = 9/5)$

Parallel lines have the same slope.

So if you can find the slope of the given line, you have the slope you want.

Change the line into the form $y=color(red)(m)x+c$
The value of $m$ will be the slope of the line.

$9x-4 = 5y" "larr$ to make the y term positive

$y = color(red)(9/5)x-4/5$

$color(red)(m = 9/5)$

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