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Describe, in great detail, how you would graph a line that is in slope-intercept form.


Use y=-3x+ 5 as your example.

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The formula for slope-intercept form is y = mx + b. Y is the y coordinate, m is the slope, x is the x coordinate, and b is the y intercept. In this example, we have y = -3x + 5. We have the slope and the y intercept. Firstly, we need to plot the y intercept. The y intercept in this example is 5. Therefore, we can have a point at 0, 5. Next, we have the slope. -3 is our slope, which is -3/1. Slope is rise/run. This means that you will need to go down 3 from 0, 5 and to the right by 1. This process can continue for a few more points, and then you can draw your line. Keep in mind, you can also go the other way. For instance, you can go up 3 and left 1.
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Your rise over run will be -3 over 1 your going to start at the point 5 on the y-axis when your at the point 5 go down 3 then over to the right 1 keep going till it off the graph. Now do the opposite way and go up 3 from 5 and to the left 1 and keep doing that till it’s off the graph.

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