SOLUTION: Please show all work, Find the slope and y-intercept of the line x=5y=8

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Question 509968: Please show all work,
Find the slope and y-intercept of the line x=5y=8

Answer by solver91311(24713) About Me  (Show Source):
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Sorry, is not a line nor is it a representation of a line. One of those equals signs needs to be either a + or a -. Given the configuration of the standard keyboard and no indication of whether you meant the equation to be in standard form or not, there are 4 possibilities and I'm not going to work all 4.

Given that, you can do this yourself. Start with the correct equation and then solve it for , which is to say use whatever algebraic manipulations are required to get by itself on the left side of the equals sign and everything else on the right side. You will end up with something that has this pattern:



The slope is then , the coefficient on , and the -intercept is the point , where is the constant term in the right hand side.

John

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