Question 268805:  How do you solve:
 
Write an equation of a line which contains the points (3, -2) and (3,6).
 
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 Answer by Edwin McCravy(20064)      (Show Source): 
You can  put this solution on YOUR website! How do you solve:
 
Write an equation of a line which contains the points (3, -2) and (3,6).
 
Let's plot those two points:
 
Now I will draw a green line through them:
 
Hmm! That's a very special type of line!
Notice that it is VERICAL.  Vertical lines are the only kinds of lines 
that DO NOT have slopes or y-intercepts!  
However, vertical lines DO have equations.  Notice that the 
two points you were given both have the same x-coordinate 3.
Look at some other points on that vertical line. Five more
points on that line are (3,5), (3,4), (3,2), (3,-3), and (3,-7):
 
In fact, EVERY point on that line has its x-coordinate
as 3.  
So to describe that vertical green line, we could just say
"The x-coordinate of any point on the line always equals 3"
or
"x always equals 3"
or even shorter
"x = 3"
That's the way to describe a vertical line, just
write "x =" and put whatever number after it
that the x-coordinates of all the points on it are,
in this case all the x-coordinates are 3.
So the equation of that vertical line is
x = 3
You cannot put it in slope-intercept form, 
for two reasons:
1.  It has no slope!
and
2. It has no y-intercept!
So you just have to leave the equation as simply
x = 3
Note:
The problem you have submitted is an unusual kind of problem
because every other kind of line except a vertical line has
a slope and a y-intercept.  All vertical lines have equations 
of the form x = k 
Edwin   
 
 
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