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What is the slope of the line given by the equation below?

y = 5x - 6

What is the slope of the line given by the equation below? y = 5x - 6-example-1

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Slope-intercept form is y = mx + b, where m is the slope of the line and b is the y-intercept.
For the equation y = 5x - 6, m = 5, meaning that the slope of the line is 5.
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The slope is 5 because the equation is y=mx+b which means 5 is the slope because m would represent slope
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