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document.write( "Graph the following equations; calculate the slope, \r\n" );
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document.write( "We write that in standard form\r\n" );
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document.write( "where m is the slope and (0,b) is the y-intercept:\r\n" );
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document.write( "So first to get the y we multiply both sides by \r\n" );
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document.write( "Now that is not in the form \r\n" );
document.write( "but we can easily make it in that form by adding \r\n" );
document.write( "to the right side in front of the :\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now we compare this to \r\n" );
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document.write( "and find  and , so the slope is 0\r\n" );
document.write( "and the y-intercept is (0,).\r\n" );
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document.write( "To plot the y-intercept, we first convert \r\n" );
document.write( "to the mixed fraction  and plot a\r\n" );
document.write( "point on the y-axis, ths of the way between\r\n" );
document.write( "1 and 2 on the y-axis:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now since the slope is 0, that makes it easy. Lines\r\n" );
document.write( "with slope 0 are always horizontal.  Therefore we\r\n" );
document.write( "draw a horizontal line through that point:\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the slope is 0, the y-intercept is (0,), and\r\n" );
document.write( "there can be no x-intercept because the line is horizontal\r\n" );
document.write( "and therefore parallel to the x-axis and therefore can\r\n" );
document.write( "never intersect it.\r\n" );
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