Y=-1/5x+12 What is the y-intercept? What is the slope?

Mathematics · High School · Tue Nov 03 2020

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According to the equation for the slope-intercept form “y=mx+b", y is the y-coordinate, m is the slope, x is the x coordinate, and b is the y-intercept. So basically in the equation y=-1/5x+12, our y-intercept is 12 and our slope is -1/5 which means that the x and y are oppositely related.