How do you find the x and y intercept and slope of $y = 5x – 2$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-07-10T20:04:37

Slope $=$ $5$
y-intercept $=$ $-2$ .
x-intercept $=$ $2/5$

$y=5x-2$

The equation is in slope intercept form: $y=mx+b$ , where $m$ is the slope, and $b$ is the y-intercept.

So the slope is $5$ , and the y-intercept is $-2$ .

To find the x-intercept, substitute $0$ for $y$ and solve for $x$ .

$0=5x-2$

Add $2$ to both sides.

$2=5x$

Divide both sides by $5$ .

$2/5=x$

The x-intercept is $2/5$ .

How do you find the x and y intercept and slope of y = 5x – 2y = 5x – 2?