SOLUTION: how do you find the x and y intercept if you are given two points?

SOLUTION: how do you find the x and y intercept if you are given two points?

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Question 225419: how do you find the x and y intercept if you are given two points?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Use the two-point form of the equation of a line to derive the equation for the line.

Where

and

are the coordinates of the two given points.

Then substitute 0 for

in the derived equation and solve for

to get the

-intercept. Then substitute 0 for

in the derived equation and solve for

to get the

-intercept.

John

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