Question

A line passes through the point (12,0) and is parallel to the line with the equation y = 1∕6x + 1. What's the equation of the line?

Answer 1

y=1/6x-2

Explanation:

Parralel lines have the same slope.

Since the slope of the parralel equation has to be 1/6, and the point is (12,0)

then you input 12 for x and get 2. But you need to get 0 for y, so the intercept would be negative 2.