Vivian charges $4 for bracelets and $5 for earrings. Her cost to make x bracelets and y earrings is $60. The equation $4x+5y=60$ represents this situation. What is the slope of this line?

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Answer 1 · 2017-01-05T11:07:03

The slope of the line is $-4/5$

$4x+5y=60 or 5y = -4x +60 or y= -4/5x+12 (y=mx+c)$
Slope $= -4/5$ graph{-4/5x+12 [-160, 160, -80, 80]}[Ans]

Vivian charges $4 for bracelets and $5 for earrings. Her cost to make x bracelets and y earrings is $60. The equation 4x+5y=604x+5y=60 represents this situation. What is the slope of this line?