How do you find the slope and intercept of $f(x) = 5x - 7$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-05-10T00:43:27

The slope is $5$ and the y-intercept is $-7$ .

$y=mx+b$

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Knowing this and applying it to this situation, $5$ replaces $m$ and $-7$ replaces $b$ , meaning $5$ is the slope and $-7$ is the $y$ -intercept.

You can apply this to any equation using slope-intercept form.

How do you find the slope and intercept of f(x) = 5x - 7f(x) = 5x - 7?