Question

How do you find the slope and intercept of `y = -2x + 5`?

Answer 1

Slope: `color(green)(-2)`
y-intercept: `color(brown)5`

Explanation:

When the equation of the line is in this form
`color(white)("XXX")y = color(green)mx + color(brown)c`
then `color(green)m` is the slope (gradient)
and `color(brown)c` is the intercept (where it crosses the y-axis.

In this case the slope (gradient) is `color(green)(-2)`
and the intercept is `color(brown)5`

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The above is a direct cut-and-paste of the comment by @pslman
with some minor formatting, done to clear this as a question that still needed an answer.