High School Math : Coordinate Geometry

Study concepts, example questions & explanations for High School Math

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Example Questions

Example Question #4 : How To Find X Or Y Intercept

What is the x-intercept of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To solve for the x-intercept, set the y value equal to zero:

Subtract  from both sides:

Example Question #5 : How To Find X Or Y Intercept

What is the y-intercept of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the y-intercept, set the x value to zero and solve:

Example Question #6 : How To Find X Or Y Intercept

What is the x-intercept of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To solve for the x-intercept, we set the  value equal to  and solve.

Example Question #7 : How To Find X Or Y Intercept

What is the y-intercept of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

When looking at an equation in standard  form,  is our y-intercept.

Or, set the  value equal to  and solve.

Example Question #8 : How To Find X Or Y Intercept

What is the y-intercept of

 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Isolate for  so that the equation is in slope-intercept form .

The  is the y-intercept, which in this case, is

Example Question #9 : How To Find X Or Y Intercept

What are the -intercepts of  ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Factor out an  from the original equation so that it is .

Set that expressions equal to  so that you can find the -intercepts. Your answers are  and

 

Example Question #10 : How To Find X Or Y Intercept

Find the -intercepts of 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Take out a  from the original equation so that you can set the expression equal to  and get your -intercepts  and

Example Question #71 : Coordinate Geometry

What is the x-intercept of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the x-intercept, we set and solve.

Subtract from both sides.

Divide both sides by .

Simplify.

Example Question #71 : Algebra I

What is the x-intercept of the following equation? 

Possible Answers:

10

-5

5

0

2

Correct answer:

5

Explanation:

We want to find the x-intercept, which is the point at which the graph crosses the x-axis. Every point on the x-axis has a y-value of 0. Thus, to find the x-intercept we just need to plug 0 in for y. 

Thus, .

Dividing both sides by , we get

Example Question #12 : How To Find X Or Y Intercept

What is the y-intercept of the following curve? 

 

 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The y-intercept of a curve is the value of that curve when the x-coordinate is . Thus, we plug in  to our equation, yielding

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