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First you must rearrange the formula given into the all too familiar y=mx+b form

-5x+4y=-16

4y=5x-16

Now we need y by itself, so we divide all terms by the coefficient, in this case 4

y=(5/4)x-4

From this equation we can see that slope is equal to 5/4, or 1 1/4

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