Question

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

Answer 1

The slope is `1`

Explanation:

`x-y=5`

Write the equation in the form `y =color(red)(m)x+c`

`x-5 = y " "rarr y = x-5`

In this form, called the slope-intercept form, you can read off the values of the slope and the `y`-intercept without doing any working.

`color(red)(m)` gives the slope. We have `y =color(red)(1)x-5`

So the slope is `color(red)(1)`