SOLUTION: How do you find the x-intercept of a line when it's given in slope-intercept form?

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Question 400091: How do you find the x-intercept of a line when it's given in slope-intercept form?
Answer by ewatrrr(24785) About Me  (Show Source):
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One finds the x-intercept by exploring when y = 0

  0 = mx + b 

 -b/m = x, the x coordinate of the x-intercept