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What is the slope of the line represented by 16x-4y=20?

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Answer:

Slope of line is 4

Step-by-step explanation:

Here, we want to get the slope of the given line

Mathematically, we have the general equation of a straight line represented as:


\text{y = mx + b}

So, basically, what we have to do here is to make x the subject of the formula to have the proper interpretation

We have this as:


\begin{gathered} 4y\text{ = 16x-20} \\ \text{divide through by 4} \\ y\text{ = }4x-5 \end{gathered}

From the general equation, the coefficient of x is the slope

From what we have here, 4 is the coefficient of x and thus is the slope of the line

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