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which description of the graph of the linear equality y ≥ 7x – 4 is correct? please help the graph will be a dashed line with a y-intercept of negative four and a slope of seven. the graph will be shaded below the line. the graph will be a solid line with a y-intercept of negative four and a slope of seven. the graph will be shaded above the line. the graph will be a solid line with a y-intercept of seven and a slope of negative four. the graph will be shaded below the line. the graph will be a dashed line with a y-intercept of seven and a slope of negative four. the graph will be shaded above the line.

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graph will be a solid line (because of the equal sign). with a y int of -4 and a slope of 7, and it will be shaded above the line (because it is greater)
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Answer:

The graph will be a solid line with a y-intercept of negative four and a slope of seven. The graph will be shaded above the line.

Explanation:

In IR2 we can write any line in this form :


y=ax+b

Where ''a'' is the slope and when
x=0


y=(a).(0)+b\\y=b
(0,b) is the point in which the line intersects the y-axis and ''b'' is the y-intercept.

To solve the linear equality
y\geq7x-4 we must first work with the expression
y=7x-4

This line has a slope of 7 given that 7 is multiplying the variable x and a y-intercept of - 4

This line will divide the plane into two regions :

The region above the line and the region below the line

To decide which region we need to shade, we can put any arbitrary point in the expression
y\geq 7x-4 and see what happen.

For example the point
(0,0)


y\geq 7x-4\\0\geq (7).(0) - 4\\0\geq -4

This final expression is true, therefore the point
(0,0) belongs to the region
y\geq 7x-4 and we conclude that we need to shade above the line.

Given that in the expression
y\geq 7x-4 we have the symbol
\geq and not > , we must include the line in the region. The line will be a solid line.

The correct description is '' The graph will be a solid line with a y-intercept of negative four and a slope of seven. The graph will be shaded above the line ''

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