What is the equation for a line with slope of 0.75 and y intercept of -5?

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Answer 1 · 2015-10-23T08:55:35

$y= 0.75x - 5$

Here given that slope $(m) = 0.75$
and $y$ -intercept of $-5$ means that the line passes through the $y$ -axis at $y=-5$ .

The $x$ -coordinate at $y$ -axis is zero

So $(x1,y1) = (0,-5)$ is the point the line passes through

Equation of the line is given by;

$(y-y1)=m(x-x1)$

$(y+5) =0.75(x-0)$

$y+5 = 0.75x$

So,
$y= 0.75x - 5$ is the equation of the line.