Question

What is an equation that is less steep than y=1/2-5?

Answer 1

Answer:

$y = \frac{1}{5} x + 10$

Step-by-step explanation:

The steepness refers to great or small the slope is irrespective of the sign.

The given line is

$y = \frac{1}{2}x - 5$

To find the steepness you must solve for the absolute value of the slope.

$|m| = | \frac{1}{2} | = \frac{1}{2} = 0.5$

Therefore any line with the absolute value of slope less than 0.5 has is less steep.

An example is

$y = \frac{1}{5}x + 10$

The steepness is

$| \frac{1}{5} | = 0.2$