Question

What is the slope of the line?
y+5 = 2(x + 1)

Answer 1

2

Explanation:

put the equation in slope intercept form y=mx+b

so y+5= 2x+2 after applying the distributive property

Get y by itself by subtracting 5 from both sides

so y= 2x +2-5

y=2x-3

slope is 2