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Example Question #1 : Calculating X Or Y Intercept
What is the
-intercept of the line ?
To solve for the x-intercept, substitute 0 for
and solve for :
The
-intercept is .Example Question #2 : Calculating X Or Y Intercept
What is the
-intercept of the line ?
Substitute 0 for
and solve for :
The
-intercept isExample Question #3 : Calculating X Or Y Intercept
What is the
-intercept of a line that includes points and ?
The slope of the line is
Use the point slope form to find the equation of the line.
Now substitute
and solve for .
The
-intercept isExample Question #1 : Calculating X Or Y Intercept
Give the area of the region on the coordinate plane bounded by the
-axis, the -axis, and the graph of the equation .
This can best be solved using a diagram and noting the intercepts of the line of the equation
, which are calculated by substituting 0 for and separately and solving for the other variable.-intercept:
-intercept:
Now, we can make and examine the diagram below - the red line is the graph of the equation
:The pink triangle is the one whose area we want; it is a right triangle whose legs, which can serve as base and height, are of length
. We can compute its area:
Example Question #1 : X And Y Intercept
What is the
-intercept of
To solve for the
-intercept, you have to set to zero and solve for :
Example Question #941 : Problem Solving Questions
What is
-intercept for
To solve for the
-intercept, you have to set to zero and solve for :
Example Question #1 : Calculating X Or Y Intercept
A line with slope
includes point . What is the -intercept of this line in terms of ?
For some real number
, the -intercept of the line will be some point . We can set up the slope equation and solve for as follows:
Example Question #1 : Calculating X Or Y Intercept
Give the
-intercept(s) of the graph of the equation
The graph has no
-intercept.
Substitute 0 for
:
The
-intercept isExample Question #701 : Geometry
Give the
-intercept(s) of the graph of the equation
Set
Using the
-method, we look to split the middle term of the quadratic expression into two terms. We are looking for two integers whose sum is and whose product is ; these numbers are .
Set each linear binomial to 0 and solve:
or
There are two
-intercepts -Example Question #1 : Calculating X Or Y Intercept
A line includes
and . Give its -intercept.
The line has no
-intercept.
The line has no
-intercept.The two points have the same
coordinate, which is 5; the line is therefore vertical. This makes the line parallel to the -axis, meaning that it does not intersect it. Therefore, the line has no -intercept.All GMAT Math Resources
