How do you solve this? What is the equation for a line with Slope: #5# and #y#-intercept: -4? I don’t know how to make the equation nor to solve it?

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Answer 1 · 2018-02-28T11:27:55

See below:

We use the slope intercept form of a line:

#y=mx+b#, where #m="slope" and b=y-"intercept"#

The question states we have #m=5 and b=-4#:

#y=5x-4#

We can put this into standard form:

#5x-y=4#

and we can graph it to show all the solutions to the equation:

graph{5x-4}