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bazaltina [42]
3 years ago
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Given line L = ax + by + c = 0, b 0 What is the x-intercept? y-intercept?

Mathematics
1 answer:
ikadub [295]3 years ago
4 0
To find the intercept put a 0 where the y is in the equation <span>L = ax + by + c = 0. Also note, the a and b and c are there to represent real numbers.

</span><span> ax + b0 + c = 0
</span><span> ax + c = 0
</span><span> ax + c - c = -c
</span><span> ax  = -c
</span> ax/a  = -c/a
<span>x = -c/a  
x-intercept = -c/a

To find the y-intercept put 0 were the x is located in the equation </span><span>ax + by + c = 0 and do the same thing as above.
</span>
<span>a0 + by + c =0
</span>by + c = 0
by +c -c = 0-c
by = 0 -c
by/b = -c/b
y = -c/b
The y-intercept is at -c/b

Why does putting a 0 where the x or y is located work? Well, the x-intercept point is (x,0). In this point, you will notice the 0 is located in the y position in(x,y).So to find the x-intercept we put the 0 in the y where it is located in <span>ax + by + c and then solve for x. This is also true for the y-intercept, which is at (0,y). The intercepts are on the axes. The y-intercetp is on the y axes at (0,y) and the x-intercept is on the x axes at (x,0)</span>
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