What is the slope of the line $3 x + y = 5$ $3x + y = 5$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-04-16T12:58:22

Isolate $y$ $y$ to actually "see" the slope as:
$y = - 3 x + 5$ $y=-3x+5$
With your slope $= - 3$ $=-3$ which is the coeficient of $x$ $x$ .

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