SOLUTION: When would you want to use the slope-intercept versus the point-slope form of a line?

Question 23394: When would you want to use the slope-intercept versus the point-slope form of a line?
Answer by rapaljer(4671) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I would always use the slope-intercept method. For decades it seems I taught to find the equation of a line using the point-slope formula. I thought this was the #3 formula in all of mathematics, behind the quadratic formula and the Theorem of Pythagoras. Then someone showed me that the slope intercept formula y = mx+b was so much easier! So it probably depends upon who you ask!!

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