Can you please help with this calculus equation

Find the slope of the line y =8/9x + 1.

20 solve 2(4 x + 3) < 5 x + 21. a) { x | x < 9} b) { x | x > -5} c) { x | x > -9} d) { x | x < 5}

Can you me with this question? i'll reward *30 points i just need with this one question so that i could solve the others. * edit: i originally set up the question to reward 30 points, but for some reason i can only reward 15. if you don't get 30, then i'm sorry. i'm still kind of new to this site