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What is the slope of the line y = -5x - 17?

What is the slope of the line y = -5x - 17?-example-1
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In a equation of a line writen in the form:


y=mx+b

The slope is m (the coefficient of variable x)

For the given equation:


y=-5x-17The slope is -5
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