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Question 974364: Need help on how to find the vertical and horizontal intercepts. Please show steps on how to find them. Thank you :)
In 2009, bestselling fiction books in mass-market paperback editions sold for about $8. At the same time, bestselling fiction hardcover editions sold for about $27. A reader wanted to spend about $110 on new books in some combination of paperback and hardcover editions.�
(a) Determine the vertical and horizontal intercepts of the graph of the implied linear function algebraically. (Let p, the number of mass market paperbacks purchased at the average mass market paperback price, be plotted on the horizontal axis, and h, the number of bestselling fiction hardcover editions purchased at the average bestselling hardcover edition price, be plotted on the vertical axis. Round your answers to one decimal place.)
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source):
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Your linear relationship uses points in a form, (p,h).

Paperpack prices were 8 dollars; and hardcover prices were 27 dollars, EACH.

A reader's cost would be . Wanting the spend 110 dollars, this makes . Easy plotting using the intercepts can be, find p when h is zero; and find h when p is zero.