Question

What is the value of b in the equation y = mx + b if the slope is 5 and we have one ordered pair (2, 3)?

Answer 1

Explanation:

the slope is always the factor of x.

so, m = 5.

to get b we use the point coordinates as x and y values :

3 = 5×2 + b

3 = 10 + b

b = -7