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What is the equation of a line with a y-intercept of -5 and a slope of 8? Oy=8r+5 Oy=8x - 5 Oy= -52 +8 y=-5.6 - 8

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The equation of a line with slope m and y-intercept b in slope-intercept form, is:


y=mx+b

If the y-intercept is -5 and the slope is 8, then m=8 and b=-5. Then, the requested equation would be:


y=8x-5

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