Answer :

The given coordinates are (0,-2) and (-5,-3). The line equation is,

y = mx + b

Here, m is the slope and b is the y-intercept.

The slope can be calculated as,

[tex]m=\frac{y2-y1}{x2-x1}=\frac{-3+2}{-5}=\frac{1}{5}[/tex]

Now to calculate b, let us take the point (0,-2) and 1/5 as m,

[tex]\begin{gathered} -2=0\times\frac{1}{5}+b \\ b=-2 \end{gathered}[/tex]

Therefore the equation of the line is,

[tex]y=\frac{1}{5}x-2[/tex]

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