The -intercept of the graph of a function is the point at which it intersects the -axis. The -coordinate is 0, so the -coordinate can be found by substituting 0 for  in the equation and solving for :

Divide both sides by 8:

The -intercept of the graph is at the point .

The -intercept of the graph of a function is the point at which it intersects the -axis. The -coordinate is 0, so the -coordinate can be found by substituting 0 for  in the equation and solving for :

Divide both sides by 7:

The -intercept of the graph is at the point .

Write the equation in slope-intercept form:

We were given the -intercept, , which means :

Given the -intercept is , the point existing on the line is . Substitute this point into the slope-intercept equation and then solve for  to find the slope:

Add  to each side of the equation:

Divide each side of the equation by :

Substituting the value of  back into the slope-intercept equation, we get:

By subtracting  on both sides, we can rearrange the equation to put it into standard form:

To find the x-intercept, we need to find the value of  when .

So we first set  to zero.

turns into

Lets subtract  from both sides to move  to one side of the equation.

After doing the arithmetic, we have

.

Divide by  from both sides

To find the y-intercept, we set 

So

turns into

.

After doing the arithmetic we get

.

The x-intercept can be found where 

So

turns into

.

Lets subtract  from both sides to solve for .

After doing the arithmetic we have

.

Divide both sides by 

Rewrite the intercepts in terms of points.

X-intercept of 1: .

Y-intercept of 2: 

Write the slope-intercept form for linear equations.

Substititute the y-intercept into the slope-intercept equation.

Substitute both the x-intercept point and the y-intercept into the equation to solve for slope.

Rewrite by substituting the values of  and  into the y-intercept form.

In order for the equation to have x-intercepts at -1 and 6, it must have and as factors. This leaves us with only 2 choices, or

This equation must also have a y-intercept of 2. This means that plugging in 0 for x will gives us a y-value of 2. Because we have two options, we could plug in 0 for x in each to see which gives us an answer of 2:

a) we can eliminate that choice

b) this must be the right choice.

If we hadn't been given multiple options, we could have set up the following equation to figure out the third factor:

divide by -6

We're writing the equation for a line passing through the points and . Since we already know the y-intercept, we can figure out the slope of this line and then write a slope-intercept equation.

To determine the slope, divide the change in y by the change in x:

The equation for this line would be .

The line will eventually be in the form where  is the y-intercept.

The y-intercept in this case is .

To find the equation, plug in  for , and the other point, as x and y:

add  to both sides

This means the equation is