SOLUTION: y=1/3x+5?

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Question 1061511: y=1/3x+5?
Answer by addingup(3677) About Me  (Show Source):
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y=1/3x+5
this is an equation in slope-intercept form y = mx+b where m is the slope and b the intercept point (where the line crosses the y)
Are they asking you to find the ordered pair that you need in order to graph the equation? I'll assume you need to find them:
y = 1/3x+5 set the x to 0 and solve for y
y = 1/3(0)+5; y = 5
OK, now we have one ordered pair: (0, 5)
Next, the slope is rise over run, in this case the slope is 1/3. This means that our next y is 1 more than the intercept: 5+1 = 6 and our run, our x value, is 3:
(3, 6).
Our ordered pairs are: (0,5)(3,6) and below is the graph: