SOLUTION: find an equation of the line through (-2, -3) with no slope.

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Question 279358: find an equation of the line through (-2, -3) with no slope.
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20086)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
ffind an equation of the line through (-2, -3) with no slope.


The only kind of lines which have no slope are vertical lines.
They do not have slopes, but they do have equations. In fact
their equations are very simple.

Let's plot that point and draw the vertical line through it: 



Let's look at some more points on that vertical line



What do you notice about all those points?  You notice that they
all have the same x-coordinate, which is -2.  So the equation is

"the line every point of which has the same x-coordinate = -2"

or writing that sentence much shorter, we have
x = -2

That is the equation of that vertical line.  You just write

what x (the x-coordinate) is always equal to on that line.

Edwin

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