A function has y-intercept of -2 and a slope of -1. which equation below describes the function?

1 answer:

ozzi3 years ago

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The correct equation should look something like this:
y= -1x - 2

Consider the equation for a line:
y = mx + b,
Where ‘m’ is the slope
Where ‘b’ is the y-intercept.

From there you can plug in your known values for ‘m’ and ‘b’, and get the equation above. If you are still not convinced, I suggest you graph the function and observe its slope and y-intercept.

Hope this helps!

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Reika [66]

Answer:

The answer is 2

Step-by-step explanation:

Rate of change of function is given by :

$\frac{(f(x_{2})-f(x_{1}))}{x_{2}-x_{1}}$

For function y = 6,

rate of change =

$=\frac{(f(x_{2})-f(x_{1}))}{x_{2}-x_{1}}\\=\frac{6-6}{x_{2}-x_{1}}\\=0$

because the function is independent of x.

For function y = 2·x + 7,

rate of change =

$=\frac{(f(x_{2})-f(x_{1}))}{x_{2}-x_{1}}\\=\frac{2\cdot x_{2}+7-2\cdot x_{1}-7}{x_{2}-x_{1}}\\=\frac{2\cdot x_{2}-2\cdot x_{1}}{x_{2}-x_{1}}\\=\frac{2\cdot (x_{2}-x_{1})}{x_{2}-x_{1}}\\=2$