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A line has a slope of 3 and y-intercept of 5. write the equation of the line in slope intercept. form and explain how you would use the slope and y-intercept to graph the equation.

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The line can be written in slope-intercept form as:

y = 3*x + 5

And the graph is in the image at the end.

How to write the linear equation?

A general linear equation in the slope-intercept form is written as:

y = ax + b

Where a is the slope and b is the y-intercept.

Here the slope is 3 and the y-intercept is 5, so:

y = 3*x + 5

Now that we have the equation we can evaluate it to find two points, then we can graph the two points, and then draw a line that passes through both of these points.

if x = 0

y = 3*0 + 5 = 5

if x = 1

y = 3*1 + 5 = 8

So the points are (0, 5) and (1, 8), with these we will get the graph of the line.

A line has a slope of 3 and y-intercept of 5. write the equation of the line in slope-example-1
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