SOLUTION: Find the equation of the line with x-intercept 4 and y-intercept 8. A correspondence between two sets D and R that assigns to each member of D exactly one element of R is a(n)_

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Question 715201: Find the equation of the line with x-intercept 4 and y-intercept 8.
A correspondence between two sets D and R that assigns to each member of D
exactly one element of R is a(n)__________

Answer by MathLover1(20850)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

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if , that is a point (,)
and if ,that is a point (,)
now we can find equation of the line that passes through these two points

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) = (4, 0) and (x2, y2) = (0, 8).
Slope a is .
Intercept is found from equation , or . From that,
intercept b is , or .

y=(-2)x + (8)

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