In order to be parallel to your line, a line has to have the same slope as your line. So it has to have slope −4
−
4
.
Thus any line parallel to the line =−4+5
y
=
−
4
x
+
5
has an equation of the form =−4+
y
=
−
4
x
+
b
, where
b
is any number.
What's the question though?
If there is 1000 seats, and the students took 45% percent of them, then 450 sixth graders went on the trip
