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document.write( "You want the equation of this green vertical line:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Let's look at some other points on that green line:\r\n" );
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document.write( "What's true about all those points?\r\n" );
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document.write( "Their x-coodinate is always 8, never anything but 8.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the equation is simply the statement\r\n" );
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document.write( "x = 8\r\n" );
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document.write( "That's all there is to it!  Just x = 8 because that\r\n" );
document.write( "is true for every point on that vertical green line.\r\n" );
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document.write( "You want the equation of this green horizontal line:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Let's look at some other points on that green line:\r\n" );
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document.write( "What's true about all those points?\r\n" );
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document.write( "Their y-coodinate is always 3, never anything but 3.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the equation is simply the statement\r\n" );
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document.write( "y = 3\r\n" );
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document.write( "That's all there is to it!  Just y = 3 because that\r\n" );
document.write( "is true for every point on that vertical green line.\r\n" );
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document.write( "You do the other one.  The equations of vertical and\r\n" );
document.write( "horizontal lines have the simplest equations of all.\r\n" );
document.write( "Vertical lines always have the equation \"x = something\".\r\n" );
document.write( "Horizontal lines always have the equation \"y = something\".\r\n" );
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