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, is a line where ALL of the ordered pairs have a

-coordinate equal to 5, in other words a horizontal line. Horizontal lines have a zero slope. Parallel lines have identical slopes, so any line parallel to a horizontal line has to have a zero slope and will have an equation of the form

where

is the

coordinate of ANY point on that line. Since the desired line contains the point

, then an equation that represents this line is

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