How do you find the slope of the line $-3y-5y=6$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-08-05T00:50:24

I found: slope $=-3/5$

You can write it in slope-intercept form:
$y=mx+c$
where the numerical coefficient $m$ will be the slope:

rearranging:

$-3y-6=5y$

Isolating $y$ you get:

$y=-3/5x-6/5$

so the slope is $-3/5$

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