Question

The equation of the line of best fit of a scatter plot is y = 5x – 2. What is the slope of the equation?

Answer 1

The answer is 5. In a slope-intercept form equation, the slope is always the coefficient of x. The slope is 5.

Answer 2

Answer with explanation:

The equation of the line of best fit of a scatter plot is

⇒y = 5 x – 2

To find the Slope of the line, comparing with slope intercept form of line ,which is

⇒y =m x + c

Comparing the two lines , we get

→Slope =5