SOLUTION: If a line passes through the points (2,2) and (4,5), the equation of the line is y - 2 = 2/3(x - ___).

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Question 315493: If a line passes through the points (2,2) and (4,5), the equation of the line is y - 2 = 2/3(x - ___).
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Use the two-point form of the equation of a line:



where and
are the coordinates of the given points.








You could also say:





and get another form of the equation of the same line. Note that:







and







But no matter what you do, the slope is , not

John
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