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We see that the
is
, so that makes
the y-intercept
or
and that the slope,
, is
.
First we plot the y-intercept
:
Now the slope is
, so we
take the numerator of the slope
, which
is
, as the rise, and the denominator,
which is
, as the run.
So we start at the y intercept and draw the rise
of
units upward, indicated below as an upward
pointing arrow. (If the slope had been negative we
would have drawn it pointing downward):
Then we go right
units for the run,
(run is always to the right) indicated by the second arrow
pointing to the right:
Now to graph the line, all we do is draw a
straight line through the y-intercept (0,1)
and through the arrow head at the end of
the run. So we have this graph:
Edwin