How do you find the slope and intercept of $2y = 4x - 5$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-07-31T05:32:55

Slope of the line is $2$ and intercept on $y$ -axis is $-5/2$ .

Slope intercept form of equation of a line is $y=mx+c$ , where $m$ is the slope of line and $c$ is its intercept on $y$ -axis.

As such one needs to solve an equation for $y$ and then coefficient of $x$ will give slope and constant term, the intercept on $y$ -axis.

As $2y=4x-5$ can be written as (dividing each term by $2$ )

$y=2x-5/2$

Hence, the the slope of the line is $2$ and intercept on $y$ -axis is $-5/2$ .

graph{y=2x-5/2 [-4.96, 5.04, -3.48, 1.52]}

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