Question

How do you find the slope and y intercept for `y = 5 – 1/2x`?

Answer 1

Look at the coefficients.

A line has the equation form:
`y=n+mx`
Where `m` is the slope, and `n` is the `y` intercept. So in your case you can easily see that `m=-1/2` is the slope and `n=5` is the `y` intercept.