SOLUTION: what is the slope of a line 2x +5?

Question 180147: what is the slope of a line 2x +5?
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Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
what is the slope of a line 2x +5?
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2x+5 is not a line, it's only an expression, or a term.
If you meant y = 2x+5, then the slope of that line is 2.
It's in the slope=intercept form, y = mx + b, where m is the slope.
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

is not a line. It is simply a binomial expression in the variable x.

Now something like has a solution set consisting of a set of ordered pairs such that . The graph of this set of ordered pairs forms a straight line in .

The slope of such a line is equal to the coefficient on x when the equation describing the set of ordered pairs is expressed in the slope-intercept form, namely , in other words the m in .

John

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