find the intercepts and graph each line. x+3y=-4

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akashdeepdeb · Answer

CLUE:
To find x-intercept y has to be = 0
To find y-intercept take x=0

Okay? :)

oaktree · Answer

@jerryjjoby, are you there so I can take you through the problem?

anonymous · Answer

@OakTree  im here.

akashdeepdeb · Answer

@jerryjjoby 
Did you understand what I did?

oaktree · Answer

Great. So like someone said above, we need to think about what it means for something to be an intercept. In this case, the x-intercept is when the y-value is 0, so we plug in y=0 to the equation of the line and solve for x. So what do you get?

anonymous · Answer

i got x=-4

oaktree · Answer

Right. So our x-intercept is -4. Likewise, can you figure out the y-intercept?

anonymous · Answer

y=0

oaktree · Answer

Not quite. We would set the x-value to 0 and then solve for y. Do you see why?

anonymous · Answer

my bad is it y=-4/3.

oaktree · Answer

Right. So now to graph, it's really, really easy. We just plop down points at -4/3 on the y-axis and at -4 on the x-axis and connect the dots!

oaktree · Answer

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oaktree · Answer

Do you get it?

anonymous · Answer

yes i got it thx for all the help.

oaktree · Answer

No problem.