Question

How do you find the slope of `x-y=5`?

Answer 1

`1`

Explanation:

Given: `x-y=5`

Rearrange.

`=>-y=5-x`

`y=-(5-x)`

`y=x-5`

`=>y=1x-5`

An equation in the form of `y=mx+b` has a slope of `m`.

So here, we got `m=1`, and therefore the slope of the line is `1`.