SOLUTION: Whats the equation for a line whose x-intercept is 8 and whose y-intercept is 6?

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Question 308823: Whats the equation for a line whose x-intercept is 8 and whose y-intercept is 6?
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A line that has an -intercept of 8 passes through the point . Likewise a line that has an -intercept of 6 passes through the point .

Use the two-point form of the equation of a line to derive an equation for the desired line. (You can't find the equation for a line because there are an infinite number of representations of any given line.



where and are the coordinates of the given points.

John