Question

Medal will be awarded if your answer is correct/accurate and if you explained it, because our teacher really sucks at teaching.

Answer 1

slope Ab = 1/3

Answer 2

Okay, so first things first, in order to find slope, you need two points, so lets just start with the first one for example, the points are A(-12,0) and B(0,4) so then to find the slope, it is Rise over run. If you hear this and your ears begin to bleed confusion, it is okay,

Answer 3

now that we have that covered, we can use the slope formula to calculate the slope of line AB.

Answer 4

4-0
/0-12

This simplifies to 4/-12 we can then simplify it further to become -1/3 this is m (aka the slope)

Answer 5

@ihatealgebrasomuch
You started out well with a great explanation, but you made a small arithmetic error.

Answer 6

Oh, forgive me, it should have been 0- -12, making it a positive 12.

Answer 7

this makes sense because in the graph, the line is going in the positive direction

Answer 8

\(slope = \dfrac{y_2 - y_1}{x_2 - x_1} = \dfrac{4 - 0}{0 - (-12)} \)

Answer 9

Remember, a positive slope is up to the right.
A negative slope is down to the right.

Answer 10

I having trouble on the second XT

Answer 11

The first step is to use the graph to read the coordinates of points X and T.

Answer 12

XT = (-12, 5.5) and (1,9)

Answer 13

You're close with both.
T is (-1, 9), not (1, 9)

Answer 14

For point X, it's a little tricky, and your estimate of the y-coordinate being 5.5 is not a bad estimate, but we're going to improve it.

Answer 15

What is the y-coordinate of point Y, and what is the y-coordinate of point W?

Answer 16

it looks like it's (-12, 6)

Answer 17

No point marked there is (-12, 6).

Look at point Y.
What is the y-coordinate of point Y?

Answer 18

-13, 5

Answer 19

No.
Point Y is to the left of point X. Points are labeled with capital letters. Don't confuse point Y with the small y label of the y-axis.

Answer 20

Good, you got it.
I only asked of the y-coordinate, so it's 5.

Answer 21

yes it's 5

Answer 22

What is the y-coordinate of point W?

Answer 23

(9, 6) <--- 6

Answer 24

Great.

Answer 25

Here's part of the coordinate plane.

Answer 26

I am getting confused more than I started lol

Answer 27

What are you trying to explain

Answer 28

I'm getting to it very soon. You'll understand it in a minute. We are trying to figure out the y-coordinate of point X which is close to 5.5, but we want the exact number.

Answer 29

it looks like it's close to 6 like 5.9