Question

Which of the following is a point slope equation of the line below (10,5)(2,2)

Answer 1

Point slope form follows the equation y-y₁=m(x-x₁), so we want it to look like that. Starting off with m, or the slope, we can find this using your two points with the formula
`( y_(1) -y_(2) )/( x_(1) - x_(2) )`. Note that y₁ and x₁ are from the same point, but it does not matter which point you designate to be point 1 and point 2. Thus, we can plug our numbers in - the x value comes first in the equation, and the y value comes second, so we have

`(5-2)/(10-2) = (3)/(5)` as our slope. Keeping in mind that it does not matter which point is point 1 and which point is point 2, we go back to y-y₁=m(x-x₁) and plug a point in (I'll be using (10,5)). Note that x₁, m, and y₁ need to be plugged in, but x and y stay that way so that you can plug x or y values into the formula to find where exactly it is on the line. Thus, we have our point slope equation to be
`y- 5= (3)/(5) (x-10)`

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