Start finding the slope of the line
using one of the points find the intercept and the standard form
the equation of the line is
How to find (a) and (b)?
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I'm here to help. Those 3 points all lie on the same line. We know this because if we find the slope between any 2 of those points, it is the same. I'll show you: 
. Now another 2 points: 
. The same holds for the first and third points. So we got that out of the way. Now we will pick any one of those points and use the x and y values and our slope to write an equation of that line and then finally solve for the x and y intercepts. I'm going to use the first point (10, 20): 
. We will simplify to get it into y = mx + b form: 
and 
and finally, 
. The y-intercept exists when x = 0, so when x = 0, y = 36. The x-intercept exists when y = 0, so when y = 0, x = 22.5. In summary, y-intercept: (0, 36). x-intercept: (22.5, 0) and you're all done!