What is the slope and intercept of $2 y = - 5$ $2y = -5$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-05-04T01:58:33

The slope is 0.

Consider the general equation of a straight line:

$y = m x + c$ $y=mx+c$

Where $m$ $m$ refers to the value of the function's slope.

Let's now rearrange your equation to this general form:

$\frac{2 y}{2} = - \frac{5}{2}$ $(2y)/2=-5/2$

$y = - \frac{5}{2}$ $y=-5/2$

Therefore, we can see that no $x$ $x$ coefficient exists. This is to say that:

$y = - \frac{5}{2} = 0 x - \frac{5}{2}$ $y=-5/2=0x-5/2$

This implies that no slope exists, and the graph instead exists parallel to the $x$ $x$ axis.

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