What is the slope of $7 y = 5 y - 8 x + 17$ $7y=5y-8x+17$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-05-02T21:22:55

$4$ $4$

We need to rearrange our equation in slope-intercept form, $y = m x + b$ $y=mx+b$ . We can start by subtracting $5 y$ $5y$ from both sides. We get:

$2 y = - 8 x + 17$ $2y=-8x+17$

Dividing both sides by $2$ $2$ , we get

$y = - 4 x + \frac{17}{2}$ $y=-4x+17/2$

The slope is given by the coefficient on $x$ $x$ , which is $4$ $4$ .

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What is the slope of 7y=5y-8x+177y=5y−8x+177y=5y-8x+17?