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Question 490462: (a) Find the equation of the vertical line containing the given point.
(b) Find the equation of the horizontal line containing the given point.
(c) Find the general equation of a line with slope 5 containing the point.
(-4,1)
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Question 490465: Find the general equation of each line; that is, write the equation in the form of Ax+By=C.
Slope= 2; containing the point (-4,1)

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Question 490468: Determine whether the given pairs of lines are parallel, coincident or intersecting?
L: 2x+y=4
M: 2x-y=8
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Question 490568: 7x=36+x+6y solve for y, step by step response
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Question 490721: points (-2, 3)and (4,y) slope m=-3 find the value of y
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Question 490740: WHAT IS THE SLOPE AND Y-INTERCEPT OF THE LINE WHOSE EQUATION IS 2X-Y=8?
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Question 490981: 9. A dehydrated patient needs a 6.4% saline IV. Unfortunately, the hospital only has bags of 6% and 8% saline solutions. How many liters of each of these solutions should be mixed together to yield 1 liter of the desired concentration?

Hello, can someone, anyone please help me with this, thanks so much!!
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Question 490993: 2. Solve using the substitution method. Show your work. If the system has no solution or an infinite number of solutions, state this.
-2x + 0y = -14
x + 11y = 18

please show ne how to do this, not a math genius!
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Question 490996: 2x^-x=1
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Question 490996: 2x^-x=1
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Question 490991: 3. Solve using the elimination method. Show your work. If the system has no solution or an infinite number of solutions, state this.
10x + 5y = 52.5
30x – 7y = 80.5

I need help??please help!
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Question 490988: 4. Solve using the elimination method. Show your work. If the system has no solution or an infinite number of solutions, state this.
-7x – 5y = 1.5
-5x – 4y = 4.5
Can someone help me solve this?
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Question 491009: The line with the equation kx-3y+7=0 is parallel to the line with graident 5. What si the value of k?
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Question 491026: I need help with graphing y= -8x. If you could explain in detail, each step... that would be great. My name is Andrew, thank you for your help.
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Question 491027: Write an equation for the line containing (-6, -6) and (-3, 1)?
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Question 491114: Please help me to solve this algebra problem. Thank you in advance.
Given the formula, Solve the indicated variable.
a = 1/2 bh for b
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Question 491148: Find the equation of the line that passes through th points (4, -2) & (6, -1)
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Question 491142: Find the equation of a line that is parallel to x + 3y = 2 and containing the point (0, 0).
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Question 491172: Determine the value of f(-3)?
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Question 491253: (5, 9)b = (3, 1)
b= {(1,2) (2, 3)}
how do i solve that to get (2, -2) ?? can i get a step-by-step explanation to getting the answer.
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Question 491264: Solve the system of equations by graphing:
2x-6y=24
3x-9y=-54
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Question 491262: Solve the system by graphing:
y=5x-6
y=-4x+3
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Question 491261: solve the system of equations by graphing:
2x+y=7
x+3y=6

When I tried solving this I put y=-2x-7...So that would make it -7/2x but I don't know how I would graph it...and then the second part I have no clue about.
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Question 491379: What is the slope of the line represented by the following equation?

4x-y+3=0
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Question 491336: Determine if is a solution to . Please show all of your work.
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Question 491267: 2-(4y-x/2)=5x+5

Need the slope?
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Question 491397: Solve the system of equations
x + y = 5
x - y = -9

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Question 491566: How would I graph the line described (-4,-6);m=6? I tried doing the y=mx+b but it really doesn't make sense on this question.
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Question 491623: The point (-2, -1) lies on line m, line m has a slope of m = -7/10. what is equation of line m
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Question 491676: Find the value of k for which the graph of 6x-ky= 2 is perpendicular to 2x+3y= 7
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Question 491489: If each engineer needs to meet with each other individually, how many engineers would equal 66 meetings? I cannot come up with this number in my son's homework question. I get 8 engineers at 56 meetings, or 9 engineers at 72 meetings. Please help!
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Question 491696: Please help me to find the solution and answer in linear equation. How much tin and how much lead must be added to 700 lbs of an alloy containing 50 percent tin and 25 percent lead to make an alloy which is 60 percent tin and 20 percent lead.
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Question 491903: write an equation of a line with slope 6 passing through the point (6,7)
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Question 491913: Find the equation of the line parallel to 10x + 21y = 15 and passing through the point (0,18).
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Question 492069: What is the slope of the line that contains the points (-2, 5) and (7, 5)?
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Question 492073: what are the slope and y-intercept of this equation f(x)=5x-2
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Question 492421: Find an equation for the line through the point (7−9) with x intercept 3.
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Question 492428: y=-4-4x
I need to find the Y intercept and then I need to find the X intercept. I am not nowing how to work the problem out the right way.
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Question 492504: what are the steps to solving a problem like this: (x+5)/(x+1)+(5)/(x-2)

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Question 492580: a line passes through points (2,-5), is parallel to graph of x=4
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Question 492563: Assume g(x) is a linear function, such that and the graph of g is perpendicular to the line
Find g(x).
Please help me out.
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Question 492637: Find and equation of the line through (-5,7) perpendicular to 5x-4y=10
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Question 492603: line parallel to the line y = 2x + 5 and through the point (2,-3) whats the answer
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