SOLUTION: What is the x-intercept of the equation 5x+2y=10?

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Question 622201: What is the x-intercept of the equation 5x+2y=10?
Found 3 solutions by matineesuxxx, Alan3354, solver91311:
Answer by matineesuxxx(27) About Me  (Show Source):
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what happens when a line crosses the x-axis? well the 'x-axis' is actually a line with the equation y=0 so now that you know that, you will understand this: whenever you have an x-intercept the y coordinate is 0! AWLAYS!!! so how about you set y=0 in this function. well lets see what happens.
5x%2B2%280%29=10 well thats the same as 5x=10 now you can see that x=10%2F5=2 so the x-intercept = 2 , or in ordered par notation, (2,0)
NOTE: you do the exact same thing with the y intercept as the equation of the y-axis is x=0 so when looking for the y-intercept, you plug x=0 into the equation and solve for y

Answer by Alan3354(69443) About Me  (Show Source):
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What is the x-intercept of the equation 5x+2y=10?
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At the x-int, y = 0
Sub 0 for y, solve for x

Answer by solver91311(24713) About Me  (Show Source):
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The -intercept is the point where the graph crosses the -axis, which is to say the point in the solution set that has the -coordinate equal to zero. The ordered pair looks like . The only thing you need to do is figure out the value of . To do that, substitute 0 for in the equation and do the required arithmetic to determine the value of that results. That will be your value.

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