What is the slope and intercept of $5x-2y = 10$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-05-07T07:36:59

$m = 5/2 and c = -5$

You need to change the equation into the form $y = mx+c$

$5x-2y = 10" "larr$ make the $y$ term positive,

$5x-10 = 2y" "larr div 2$

$5/2x-5=y$

or, $y= 5/2x-5" "larr$ this is slope-intercept form

In $y = color(blue)(m)x color(red)(+c)$

$color(blue)(m)$ gives the slope and $color(red)(+c)$ is the y-intercept

$m = color(blue)(5/2) and c = color(red)(-5)$

What is the slope and intercept of 5x-2y = 105x-2y = 10?