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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop twos

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You're brought to you by negative slopes which are awfully

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hard to ski on gravity to work there Art If

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a line has a slope of negative seven and it's

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equation could be written why equals five minus blank x

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Okay what is this question i want to know Well

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we're giving the equation for a line most of one

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anyway and we need to figure out what coefficient should

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go before the x to give us a slope of

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negative seven You might want to breathe a sigh of

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relief right now because this one's pretty simple we don't

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need to graph anything no combining like terms under that

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business All we have to do is recognize that when

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we have an equation written in this form the coefficient

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of x is the slope In other words we just

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plug in a seven The only potentially tricky part is

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that we can't get sloppy and ignore the minus sign

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in there We want a slope of negative seven so

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we only need to put a regular old seven in

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the blank and the minus sign alternate negative for us

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If we plugged in negative seven the signs would cancel

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and we'd be left with a slope of positive seven

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which we don't want to Our answer is seven which 00:01:16.474 --> [endTime] incidentally is also a difficult thing to scheme

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