SOLUTION: Using the point slope formula, what is the equation of the line that passes through the points (1,5) and (0,0)? Please help me?

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Question 5818: Using the point slope formula, what is the equation of the line that passes through the points (1,5) and (0,0)? Please help me?
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Solved by pluggable solver: FIND EQUATION of straight line given 2 points
hahaWe are trying to find equation of form y=ax+b, where a is slope, and b is intercept, which passes through points (x1, y1) = (1, 5) and (x2, y2) = (0, 0).
Slope a is .
Intercept is found from equation , or . From that,
intercept b is , or .

y=(5)x + (0)

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