SOLUTION: Explain how to graph an equation in the rectangular coordinate system.

Question 648298: Explain how to graph an equation in the rectangular coordinate system.
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
To graph any equation, you need a set of points.

To get a set of points, you plug in various and arbitrary values of x to get corresponding values of y. Each point is of the form (x,y)

Once you have a set of points, you draw a line/curve through all of them to graph the equation.
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