document.write( "Question 145290: I'm still having trouble with the graph method.Could someone please show me how to do a couple of my practice problems? Also when you draw the lines on the graph,could you please draw the dots first,so I can understand how you got where the lines go?\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "I want to think you for all your help and time in advance.I think people like you are wonderful,because you help people like me that want to understand math concepts,but are still having some difficulties. Elle J
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Algebra.Com's Answer #105953 by jim_thompson5910(35256)\"\" \"About 
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note: I added the solution to #2\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Looking at \"y=x-1\" we can see that the equation is in slope-intercept form \"y=mx%2Bb\" where the slope is \"m=1\" and the y-intercept is \"b=-1\" \r
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