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Example Question #41 : Linear Algebra
What identification mistake(s), if any, did this student make?
The slope, , is correct..
The y-intercept, , is correct.
The slope, , is and the y-intercept, , is
After dividing both sides by , the student neglected to divide the -value by , as well. So the slope was incorrect. It should be
The y-intercept, , is correct.
The slope, , is correct.
After dividing both sides by , the student should not have divided the y-intercept, , by . The y-intercept is incorrect.
The student should have put it in standard form to find the slope and y-intercept.
After dividing both sides by , the student neglected to divide the -value by , as well. So the slope was incorrect. It should be
The y-intercept, , is correct.
The student was correct in the attempt to get the equation into slope-intercept form, by dividing by on both sides.
The slope should have been:
The y-intercept was correct in being:
Example Question #42 : Slope Intercept Form
What is the equation of the line that goes through the points and ?
Start by finding the slope of the line.
Recall how to find the slope:
Using the given points,
Now, we can write the equation for the line as the following:
, where is the y-intercept that we still need to find.
Take one of the points and plug it into the equation for and , then solve for .
Using the point ,
Thus, the equation of the line must be
Example Question #41 : Slope Intercept Form
Find the equation of a straight line with a slope of that passes through .
So our final answer should appear in slope-intercept form, with representing the slope and representing the y-intercept. We know that our slope is , meaning .
Now we have but we still need to find our y-intercept, .
To solve for the y-intercept, we'll need to use the coordinates given to us in the question to replace the and . Remember that in a coordinate the is our first number and our is the second number, like so: .
Since we are working with fractions here i'll show how to solve this without a calculator, but using one will make it quicker.
Replace the and y with and respectively and then solve as if you solving for , but with .
Since we are multiplying with a fraction, our can be changed to look like , which is 's fraction form. Multiply across both the top and bottom.
So now we have this:
Subtract the on both sides, and since we're subtracting by a fraction we'll need our to become a fraction too. We can't use because for adding and subtracting our denominators must be the same, so I will multiply with in order to get the same denominator.
Now that our has become (it's still , despite how big the fraction looks.) we can use it with our subtraction of . Subtract only the numerator though, not the denominator.
Now that we have our y-intercept, we can take out the and and replace our with .
Example Question #42 : Slope Intercept Form
Find the equation of a straight line that has a slope of and passes through .
Our answer should be in slope-intercept form, with representing our slope and representing our y-intercept. We know that our slope is, which means .
This should give us , but we still need to find our y-intercept; .
In order to find our y-intercept, we'll need to replace our and with those of our coordinates in the question. Remember that in a coordinate the first number is our while our second number is , as shown here: .
Replace and with that of and and then solve the problem as if you were solving for , but with .
Both negatives when multiplied cancel to create a positive:
Subtract from both sides:
Our y-intercept is , so now we can take out the and and replace the with .
Example Question #43 : Slope Intercept Form
Find the equation of a straight line that has a slope of and passes through
So we know we need this problem to end as a slope-intercept formula, with representing our slope and representing our y-intercept.
From the question we know that our slope is , which means . So we have so far, now we need to find our y-intercept; .
To find , you need to plug in our coordinates into the equation. Remember that the first number of a coordinate is your , and the second one is your , like this .
Take the and of the coordinate and substitute them for your and , so you should end up with something looking like this:
Solve the problem from there like you would to find , only with .
Our y-intercept is , so now we can take out the and and substitute the for .
Example Question #44 : Slope Intercept Form
Rewrite the equation
in slope-intercept form.
The slope-intercept form of the equation of a line is
for some constant .
To rewrite
in this form, it is necessary to solve for , isolating it on the left-side. First, add to both sides:
Multiply both sides by :
Distribute on the right:
This is the correct choice.
Example Question #41 : Linear Algebra
What is the slope-intercept form of the equation ?
The slope-intercept form of this equation cannot be given.
Recall what the slope intercept form is:
You will need to algebraically rearrange the given equation.
is the slope-intercept form of the equation given in standard form.
Example Question #42 : Linear Algebra
Find the equation of the line the passes through (3,4) with a slope of 2
Recall our point-slope form
Here and and
So, plugging those in gives us
Lets distribute that 2
and add 4 to both sides
And simplify
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