What is the slope and y-intercept of the line in the (x, y) coordinate plane given by the equation 5x + 24 = 8y?

Question

And how do I find the slope and y-intercept? Please help.

Answer 1

In order to find the slope and the y-intercept, you want the equation in the form of y = mx+b, with the y isolated on one side.

Divide both sides by 8 in order to isolate the y. This gives you the equation y=(5/8)x + 3

Therefore, m = 5/8 and b = 3. This means that the slope is 5/8 and the y intercept is 3.

Hope that helps!