How do you find the slope of $y = - 3 x + 5$ $y=-3x+5$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-05-23T13:19:47

Any linear equation of the form
$y = m x + b$ $y=mx +b$
is in the "slope-intercept form"
with a slope of $m$ $m$
and a y-intercept of $b$ $b$

The equation $y = - 3 x + 5$ $y=-3x+5$
has a slope of $(- 3)$ $(-3)$
(and a y-intercept of $5$ $5$ ).

How do you find the slope of y=-3x+5y=−3x+5y=-3x+5?