What is the slope of a line parallel to $5x-y=10$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2014-09-28T02:15:21

Parallel lines have the same slope.

When in standard form, $Ax+By=C$ , the slope of a linear equation can be found using the expression $-A/B$ .

$A=5$
$B=-1$

$m=-(A/B)=-(5/(-1))=5$

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