Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
We can directly substitute y of the first equation to the second equation.
-2x - 1 = 3x - 16
5x = 15
x = 3
Substituting back to any of the two equations, we get y = -2(3)-1 = -7. If you check with the second equation, y = 3(3)-16 = -7 as well.
Therefore .
Notice that for this question, they are providing you with:
1) The slope of the line (4)
2) a point on the plane through which the line goes (6, -2)
So you can directly use for this the "point-slope" form of a line which is as follows:
This includes m as the slope, and the pair (x0, y0) as the pair representing the point the line goes through.
So, let's use the info they gave you to complete this:
which we can work out a little more:
And even a little more to finish the equation of the line in its standard slope-intercept form:
So the equation of the line is: