What is the slope and y-intercept of the line y=-5x+2?

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-20T13:51:36

Slope=#-5# and #y#-intercept is 2.

When a linear function is given in slope-intercept form it is possible to read some data at once:

#y=mx+c#

From this form it is possible to read off the gradient a #y#-intercept immediately because:

#m#= slope

#c#= #y#-intercept

So hence we can determine that

#m#=slope= #-5#

#c#=y-intercept= #2#