How do you find the slope of the line $2x+y=10$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-04-03T02:30:47

The slope is $-2$ .

Change the equation to slope-intercept form, $y=mx+b$ , where $m$ is the slope and $b$ is the y-intercept.

$2x+y=10$ Subtract $2x$ from both sides.

$y=-2x+10$ The slope is $-2$ .

How do you find the slope of the line 2x+y=102x+y=10?