How do you find the slope and intercept for 2x+y=5?

1 Answer
May 9, 2018

Slope: -2, or -2/1
Intercept: 5

Explanation:

To find slope and intercept, we should have this in slope-intercept form, y=mx+b. Slope is m and b is the intercept.

Now let's isolate the y to get the form.
2x+y=5 becomes \cancel(2x)+y\cancel(\color(red)(-2x))=5\color(red)(-2x) which simplifies to y=-2x+5

From there, you see that slope m=-2 and intercept b=5.