SOLUTION: What is the slope-intercept form of an equation of the line passing through the points (1, 2) and (5, -10)? Show your work.

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Question 806221:
What is the slope-intercept form of an equation of the line passing through the points (1, 2) and (5, -10)? Show your work.
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Use the two-point form of an equation of a line:



where and are the coordinates of the given points.

Solve the result for in terms of everything else to put the equation into slope-intercept form, namely:

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