Question

What is the slope of the line y = - 5/4x - 5 ?

Answer 1

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The slope of this line is -5/4.

This equation is written in slope-intercept form, which looks like this:

y=mx+b

Where

m is the slope and b is the y-intercept.

So the slope is the number before x (in y=mx+b form).

The number before x is -5/4.

Therefore, -5/4 is the slope. Hope it helps. Ask me if you have any queries.

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Answer 2

-5/4

Explanation:

Slope is rise over run which means that the -5 will apply to your y values and the 4 will apply to your x values. This slope would have a point move down 5 units and to the right 4 units to get the location of the next point when going left to right. Because the slope contains a negative, the slope will be angled downward left to right. The negative only applies to the 5.