What is the slope and intercept of $y = 5x-3$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-12-22T23:02:36

The slope is $5$ and the y-intercept is $-3$

The slope intercept for of a linear equation is:

$y = color(red)(m)x color(green)(+) color(green)(b)$

Where $color(red)(m)$ is the slope and $color(green)(b)$ is the $y$ intercept.

Therefore for this problem: $y = color(red)(5)x color(green)(-) color(green)(3)$ :

$color(red)(m = 5)$ so the slope is $5$

and

$color(green)(b = -3$ so the y-intercept is $-3$

What is the slope and intercept of y = 5x-3y = 5x-3?