SOLUTION: I need an example of how to do a group of problems. They are asking me to write the slope-intercept form of the eqation of the line through the given point with the given slope an

Question 316665: I need an example of how to do a group of problems. They are asking me to write the slope-intercept form of the eqation of the line through the given point with the given slope an example of a problem is
through:(-4,-3), slope= 5\4
once i see how to do one of them i will be able to do the rest please help me.
Found 2 solutions by Fombitz, JBarnum:
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Use the other form of a line, the point-slope form and convert to slope-intercept.

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Answer by JBarnum(2146) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
slope-intercept: y=mx+b
through:(-4,-3), slope= 5\4
so we have :
x=-4
y=-3
m=(5/4)
find b

cross cancelled the 4's leaving 5 times -1
add 5

rewrite equation

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