document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1178569>Question 1178569</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Give the General equation of the line, with integer coefficients ( Ax + By + C = 0, wherein A is always positive)<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "1. has x intercept of 4 and y intercept of 7\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "2. . has x intercept of -2/3 and y intercept of 1\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "3. . has x intercept of -9 and y intercept of 4/5\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "4. passing through ( 0 , 2) and ( 3/5 , 0 ) </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "This is four examples of exactly the same kind of problem.  We are not going to do all of your work for you; I will work one of them and then let you use that as an example to do the others.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "x-intercept of 4 and y-intercept of 7....<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "(1) There is a little-used form for a linear equation using an x-intercept of a and a y-intercept of b:<br><BR>\n" );
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document.write( "You can plug in the given intercepts and put the resulting equation in your general form.<br><BR>\n" );
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document.write( "(2) Or you can use the given intercepts to determine the slope of the line and then use that slope and the given y-intercept to write to slope-intercept form of the equation, and then put the equation in general form.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "With y-intercept b and x-intercept a, the slope of the line is -b/a.  So<br><BR>\n" );
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