Which equation represents the line through (4, 5) and (0, 3)?
1 answer:
Answer:
I dont know what options you have but all these are possible answers
y - 5 = 1/2 ( x - 4 )
y - 3 = 1/2 x
y = 1/2 x + 3
Step-by-step explanation:
In order to find the equation you need a slope, so you find the slope of both points by using the slope equstion
y2 - y1 / x2 - x1
and you would get :
now you plug it into the point slope formula which is y - y = m ( x - x )
and you choose one of the two sets of points that they provided in the question but you'll get the same answer either way.
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Part A
The graph is shown below as an attached image.
The diagram shows a straight line that goes through the two points (0,-3) and (1, -5)
I'm using GeoGebra to graph the line.
side note: (0, -3) is the y intercept which is where the graph crosses the y axis.
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Part B
Answer is choice 2
The graph can be written in the form y = mx+b, so it is linear
In this case, m = -2 is the slope and b = -3 is the y intercept
We can write the slope as m = -2 = -2/1. This tells us that we can move down 2 units and then over to the right 1 units to get from point to point. This process of "down 2, over to the right 1" happens when moving from point A to point B in the diagram below.
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