Write in slope-intercept form.
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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
The trick is to exploit the difference of squares formula,
Set a = √8 and b = √6, so that a + b is the expression in the denominator. Multiply by its conjugate a - b:
Whatever you do to the denominator, you have to do to the numerator too. So
Expand the numerator:
So we have
But √12 = √(3•4) = 2√3, so