document.write( "Question 100206This question is from textbook Intermediate Algebra through Applications
\n" ); document.write( ": I just took a quiz online and I knew everything, but for some reason this question stumped me. I looked in the chapter to find a problem like this and there were none. How do you solve this:\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "(4,-3) (3,b) m= -4/5 find b\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "the answer was something like -34/5 \r
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(4,-3) (3,b) m= -4/5 find b
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\n" ); document.write( "slope = change in y / change in x
\n" ); document.write( "slope = [b--3]/[3-4] = [b+3]/[-1]\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Since m= -4/5 and since m is the slope
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\n" ); document.write( "(b+3)/-1 = -4/5
\n" ); document.write( "b+3 = 4/5
\n" ); document.write( "b = -3 + 4/5
\n" ); document.write( "b = -15/5 + 4/5
\n" ); document.write( "b = -11/5
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