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

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Answer 1 · 2015-05-27T01:28:03

A linear equation of the form
$y = mx +b$ is in the slope-intercept form
with slope of $m$ and y-intercept of $b$

$y= -4x -5$ is in slope-intercept form
with slope of $(-4)$
and y-intercept of $(-5)$

How do you find the slope and y intercept for y = -4x - 5y = -4x - 5?