Question

What is an equation of the line that passes through the points (0, -4) and (-4, 6)?

Answer 1

I got this answer by first using the slope formula, which would result into $\frac{0 - 4}{6 - 0}$for which the answer would be - ⅔ Then, the y-intercept could be found easily, since you already have it., which is (0,4). Since the format for all linear equations are y=mx+b , in which b means the y-intercept and m means the slope. So then, if you substitute - ⅔ for m and 4 for b , you would get

$y = - \frac{2}{3} x + 4$