Jefferson High School is looking to expand its student parking lot by expanding the existing lot as shown above. The size of the
new parking lot will be twice the size of the old parking lot. How many feet, x, was the old parking lot expanded by?
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Slope intercept form: y = mx + b
mx = slope
b = y-intercept
We know the y intercept is 0, so nothing will be written there.
To find the slope of this line, we can use the slope formula.
We'll use the points (1, 0) and (3, 1) to find the slope.
Now we can just plug these values into the equation to find the slope.
1 - 0 / 3 - 1
1 / 2
The slope of the line is 1/2, or 0.5.
The slope-intercept form of this line can be written as:
y = 0.5x