What is the slope of a line parallel to the line y = 5x – 1?

Answer 1

Two lines that are parallel have the same slope. So, the question is, what s the slope of y = 5x -1? This equation is in slope-intercept form (also known as y = mx + b) and the coefficient in front of the x (also known as "m") is the slope. So this line has a slope of 5. The line parallel to it, also has the slope of 5.

Answer 2

This question is super easy. All you need to answer is to understand what slope is. Slope is rise over run. Rise is the Y-axis and run is the X-axis. So rise over run is how much Y increases for every unit X increases. In this case the answer is the the coefficient (the number in front ) of x, since y=5x - 1 has y by itself (with no coefficient). The slope of this equation is 5, and any equation which has the same slope (like y=5x + 1 or y=5x -10, etc. is parallel.