Question

What is the slope of the line y - 5 = -4(x - 8)?

Answer 1

Answer is:
The slope is negative 4
The answer to the equation is:
y=-4x+37

Step-by-step explanation:
Y=Mx+B
The m in the equation is always gonna be the slope!

Your welcome

Answer 2

-4

Step-by-step explanation:

This looks like point-slope form, which I find personally hideous. Let's change it to slope-intercept form to ease my conscience. (remember that slope-intercept form is y=mx+b, where m=slope and b=y-intercept!)

y - 5 = -4(x-8)

y - 5 = -4x + 32

y = -4x + 37

It's in slope-intercept form now! And -4 looks to be our m.

So the slope is -4.