SOLUTION: how can you find the x-intercept and the y-intercept of the line. And then how do you graph the equations?

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Question 18890: how can you find the x-intercept and the y-intercept of the line. And then how do you graph the equations?
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To find the y-intercept you can use y=mx+b and m is your slope and b is the intercept you are looking for. To find the x intercept use the same equation only this time solve for x. To graph it you start at the intercepts which ever one it is and just go up or down depending on your slope.