Find the equation of the line through the points (-3,-3) and (2,-1) using point-slope form. Then rewrite the
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Answer: See below
Step-by-step explanation:
The point-slope equation is y-y₁=m(x-x₁). Since we don't know our slope, we can use the formula to find the slope. All we have to do is use the coordinate we were given and plug it into the formula.
Now that we have the slope, we can fill out the point-slope equation.
y-(-3)=2/5(x-(-3))
y+6=2/5(x+3)
This is the point-slope form.
Now, we can distribute and solve to get slope-intercept form.
y+6=2/5x+6/5
y=2/5x-24/5
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