Question

The x-intercept of a line is –5 and the y-intercept of the line is –2. What is the equation of the line?
a.y = –5/2x – 5
b.y = 2/5x + 2
c.y = 5/2x – 2
d.y = –2/5x – 2

Answer 1

d.y = –2/5x – 2
for y-intercept put x=0
for x-intercept put y=0

Answer 2

What is an intercept? It's just where the line touches the axis. When does a line touch the axis? Well, since the axis is located at x=0 and y=0, you know that you're hitting the x-axis when your y-value is 0.

Answer 3

So all you do is plug in 0 for x to find the y-intercept and plug in 0 for y to find the x-intercept.

Answer 4

thanks so much it was a bigg help