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Math pls help I don’t want to fail

Math pls help I don’t want to fail-example-1

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Answer:


\displaystyle y=-(6)/(5)x -8

Explanation:

Slope-intercept form is y = mx + b where m is the slope and b is the y-intercept. Here, we are given the slope. The other user solved with the point-slope formula, so I will show another method here. We can substitute this into the equation, along with the coordinate point given, and solve for b.

Given:

y = mx + b

Subsiute:

(-2) =
-(6)/(5)(-5) + b

Multiply:

-2 = 6 + b

Subtract 6 from both sides of the equation:

-8 = b

Lastly, we will substitute both of these values back in to get our equation.

y = mx + b

y =
-(6)/(5)x - 8

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