How do you find the slope given $x-y=5$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-07-31T09:59:27

The slope is $1$

$x-y=5$

Write the equation in the form $y =color(red)(m)x+c$

$x-5 = y " "rarr y = x-5$

In this form, called the slope-intercept form, you can read off the values of the slope and the $y$ -intercept without doing any working.

$color(red)(m)$ gives the slope. We have $y =color(red)(1)x-5$

So the slope is $color(red)(1)$

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