SOLUTION: Please find an equation of the line meeting the specified conditions. Please write your final answer in slope-intercept form. Containing the point (0, -8) and parallel to -5x +

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Question 294441: Please find an equation of the line meeting the specified conditions. Please write your final answer in slope-intercept form.
Containing the point (0, -8) and parallel to -5x + y = 7
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Answer by checkley77(12844) About Me  (Show Source):
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(0, -8) and parallel to
-5x + y = 7
y=5x+7 (red line)
this line has a slope=5 thus any parallel line will also havwe a slope 5.
-8=5*0+b
-8=b
b=-8 the Y intercept.
y=5x-8 (green line)
+graph%28+300%2C+200%2C+-6%2C+5%2C+-10%2C+10%2C+5x+%2B7%2C+5x+-8%29+ (graph 300x200 pixels, x from -6 to 5, y from -10 to 10, of TWO functions 5x +7 and 5x -8).