Answer
-$\frac{2}{5}$
Work Step by Step
The student rewrote the problem incorrectly and therefore got the wrong slope.
2x+5y=14
5y=-2x+14
y=-$\frac{2}{5}$x+$\frac{14}{5}$
The correct slope is -$\frac{2}{5}$.
Intermediate Algebra: Connecting Concepts through Application
by Clark, Mark; Anfinson, Cynthia
Published by
Brooks Cole
ISBN 10:
0-53449-636-9
ISBN 13:
978-0-53449-636-4
Chapter 1 - Linear Functions - 1.5 Finding Equations of Lines - 1.5 Exercises - Page 77: 73
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