SOLUTION: graph a line with identical slope and y intercept slope -5 and y intercept (0,8)

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Question 923946: graph a line with identical slope and y intercept
slope -5 and y intercept (0,8)
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source):
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This is the equation y = -5x + 8

Looking at we can see that the equation is in slope-intercept form where the slope is and the y-intercept is

Since this tells us that the y-intercept is .Remember the y-intercept is the point where the graph intersects with the y-axis

So we have one point

Now since the slope is comprised of the "rise" over the "run" this means

Also, because the slope is , this means:

which shows us that the rise is -5 and the run is 1. This means that to go from point to point, we can go down 5 and over 1

So starting at , go down 5 units

and to the right 1 unit to get to the next point

Now draw a line through these points to graph

So this is the graph of through the points and

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Let me know if that helps or not. Thanks.

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