DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS
The equation of a straight line can be written in the slope-intercept form to be:
where m is the slope and b is the y-intercept.
The formula to calculate the slope is given to be:
SOLUTION
Table 1: Two points can be picked from the table as shown below
Therefore, the slope is calculated to be:
The y-intercept is the value on the y-axis when the x-axis is 0. Therefore:
Therefore, the equation of the first table is:
Table 2: Two points can be picked from the table as shown below
Therefore, the slope is calculated to be:
Therefore, the equation of the line is:
To find the value of b, we need to substitute one of the ordered pairs in the table into the equation and solve for b:
Therefore, the equation of the second table is:
To get the solution to the system of equations, we can plot the graphs of the equations. This is shown below:
The solution to the system is the point where both graphs intersect.
Therefore, the solution to the system is:
ANSWERS
The equation of the first system is:
The equation of the second system is:
The solution to the system is: