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Please help me I don’t understand this-example-1

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When you're given a point and the slope of a line, it is often easiest to write its equation in point-slope form.

This is
y-y_1=m(x-x_1), where
(x_1,y_1) is the ordered pair for the point you are given and m is the slope.

Here, you would write
y-8=-3(x-7). Then, you simplify to get to slope-intercept form, which is
y = mx+b, where b is the y-intercept.


y-8=-3(x-7) \\ y=-3x+29

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