The negative slope is the opposite, it tells you of how much y decreases for each increas of 1 unit in x. A slope of -5 tells you that the value of y decreases of 5 units in the 1 unit interval of x: As you may guess the slope is a measure of the "inclination" of your line!!! Try to guess what a slope of zero means!!!!! More @Wikipedia
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