Question

What are the coordinates for the x and y intercepts of the function 4y - 2x = 24?

Answer 1

For 4y, I believe the coordinates are (4,6) and the coordinates for 2x are (2,12). This is my best guess. Let me know if I'm wrong.

Answer 2

First, let's put this in Slope-intercept form: y = mx + b, where m is the slope and b is the y-intercept.
4y - 2x = 24          Add 2x to both sides
4y = 2x + 24         Divide both sides by 4
y = (1/2)x + 6
Now that we're in slope-intercept we can easily find the y and x intercepts/
b = 6, so the y-intercept equals 6. Plug zero in for x to confirm!

Now we plug 0 in for y to find the x intercept:
0 = (1/2)x + 6     Subtract 6 from both sides
-6 = (1/2) x          Multiply both sides by 2
-12 = x
The x intercept is -12

In Conlusion:
x-intercept = -12
y- intercept = 6