A) He wanted to create zero pairs on the left side of the equation to get a positive coefficient of x on the right side
Answer:
There are about 3 students that are left handed in a class. First Sara took the percentage of left handed people, 11%, and multiplied it by the amount of students in the class, 30. She got 3.3 but you can't have 0.3 of a person so she rounded it down to 3.
find the gradient = change in y/change in X
-5 - -3/-3 - -6
= -2/3
take any two point say -3,-5 and equate to the gradient
Y - 5 /X - 3 = -2/3
cross multiply
3y - 15 = -2x + 6
3y = -2x +6 + 15
3y = -2x + 21
y = -2/3x +7