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What is the rate of change of the function y = 5x + 4?

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The slope of y = 5x - 4 is 5.

Notice that the equation, y = 5x - 4, of the line is written in the form y = mx + b. Thus, it is in slope-intercept form. When the equation of a line is in slope-intercept form, we know that the slope of the line is equal to m, the coefficient of x.

In y = 5x - 4, the coefficient of x is 5. Thus, the slope of the line, y = 5x - 4, is 5.

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