How do you find the slope of $5x+y=4$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-05-28T12:59:09

If we re-write the given equation $5x+y = 4$
as
$y = (-5)x +4$
we have a linear equation in standard slope-intercept form
with a slope of $(-5)$

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