Question

What is the 17x in y = 17x – 3?

Answer 1

the 17 in front of the x is the slope

Answer 2

that tells you how steep or shallow the graph is and it tells you how to get from point to point

Answer 3

for instance, the y-intercept is (0,-3)

you start there and go up 17 units, then to the right 1 unit to get to the point (1, 14)

you now have two points which is enough info to plot the line