Equations of Lines

Ford's Forms of Lines

20 cards   |   Total Attempts: 184
  

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What is the purpose for using point-slope form?
To write the equation of a line, given the point and slope or given the point and calculating the slope
What is the purpose for putting an equation in slope-intercept form?
To Graph
What is the y-intercept of 3x-9y=36?
36/3 = 12
What is the slope of y=3x+7?
3
Give the slope of Ax+By=C
-A/B
Give the y-intercept of y=3x+7
7
What is the x-intercept of y=3x+7?
-7/3
What is the slope of a line in slope-intercept form?
M
What is the x-intercept of y=mx+b?
-b/m
The graph of a linear equation is __?
A line
What form is y=mx+b?
Slope Intercept Form
What form is y-y1=m(x-x1)
Point Slope Form
Slope containing
Answer 13
Standard Form
Ax+By=C
What is the purpose for putting a linear equation into standard form?
To graph (using x and y intercepts)