SOLUTION: In going over a test review it asks for the equation for: undefined slope with a x intercept of 2. The answer is x=2. I don't understand the process to get that answer, Thank yo

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Question 224941: In going over a test review it asks for the equation for: undefined slope with a x intercept of 2. The answer is x=2. I don't understand the process to get that answer, Thank you
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
In going over a test review it asks for the equation for: undefined slope with a x intercept of 2. The answer is x=2. I don't understand the process to get that answer, Thank you

To understand it you must understand the graph.

The only lines with undefined slope are vertical lines. 

First draw the x-intercept, which is the point on
the x axis marked 2.  It has the coordinates (2,0):

 

Draw a vertical line through that point:



Now look at some more points on that vertical line:



Look at all those points, 

(2,4), (2,3),  (2,1.5),  (2,0), (2,-2), (2,-3)

What do they have in common?

Well, they have different y-coordinates, but THEY ALL HAVE
THE SAME x-COORDINATE! And that x-COORDINATE is 2.

So to describe that line we could say:

"The line on which every point has x = 2"

That's why we say the equation of the line is

x = 2.  That's because the x-coordinate is always equal to 2.  

Edwin

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