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You can factor -80 as
So, we have
The square root of a product is the product of the square roots:
Since and
, we have
You can see that each time x increases by 1, y increases by 5. This means that the coefficient of x is 5 (if you graphed it, the slope would be 5). To find what value to add at the end, you can look at what y is when x equals 0. In this case, that is -2 (on a graph, -2 would be the y-intercept).