What is the slope and intercept for $y = \frac{1}{4} x + 5$ $y=1/4x+5$ and how would you graph it?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-26T11:03:50

graph{1/4x+5 [-20.84, 19.16, -0.32, 19.68]}

slope is: 1/4
x- interept is:-20
y-intercept is: 5

Slope is just the co-efficent in front of the x term i.e. m, in y=mx+c

The y-intercept is given by c

To calculate the x-intercept set $y = 0$ $y=0$ then reverse the mapping to solve for x

$0 = \frac{x}{4} + 5$ $0=x/4+5$
$- 5 = \frac{x}{4}$ $-5=x/4$
$- 20 = x$ $-20=x$

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