SOLUTION: Please please please help! The problem is:
Write and equation in standard form of the line that passes through (7,-3) and has a y-intercept of 2.
I put (incorrectly) my answe
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Write and equation in standard form of the line that passes through (7,-3) and has a y-intercept of 2.
I put (incorrectly) my answe
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Question 719280: Please please please help! The problem is:
Write and equation in standard form of the line that passes through (7,-3) and has a y-intercept of 2.
I put (incorrectly) my answer as 2=7x-3. Can you help? Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
In the first place, your line does not have a -intercept of 2. A -intercept is a point and a point is designated by an ordered pair. -intercepts have the feature that the -coordinate is zero. So, presuming that you (or your instructor) actually meant to say that the -coordinate of the -intercept is 2, then the -intercept is the point
Now use the two-point form of an equation whose solution set is a set of ordered pairs that comprise a line:
where and are the coordinates of the given points.
Do the indicated arithmetic and then rearrange the equation so that it is in form. Some teachers/professors/instructors/textbook authors demand that , , and be integers to be proper Standard Form.
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