A company produces accessories for smart phones and tablets. The profit on each smart phone case is $2 and the profit on each tablet case is $3. The company made a profit of $1,200 on the cases last month. The equation 2x + 3y = 1,200 represents the company's profit from cases last month, where x is the number of smart phone cases sold and y is the number of tablet cases sold

Describe how you would graph this line using the slope-intercept method. Be sure to write in complete sentences.

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A company produces accessories for smart phones and tablets. The profit on each smart phone case is $2 and the profit on each tablet case is $3. The company made a profit of $1,200 on the cases last month. The equation 2x + 3y = 1,200 represents the company's profit from cases last month, where x is the number of smart phone cases sold and y is the number of tablet cases sold

Describe how you would graph this line using the slope-intercept method. Be sure to write in complete sentences.

lena772 · Answer

@hartnn

lena772 · Answer

@ranga

lena772 · Answer

@shamil98

shamil98 · Answer

2x + 3y=  1200
change this to slope-intercept form
y = mx + b

anonymous · Answer

The slope-intercept form is y=mx+b where m is the gradient/slope and b is the y-intercept. So if you rearrange the equation...
2x + 3y = 1200
You want only y on the left side. So you will have to get rid of the 2x and scalar 3 on the left side. To do that, you will minus both sides with 2x to get
2x + 3y -2x = 1200 -2x
2y = 1200 - 2x
Now you just divide it by 2

shamil98 · Answer

where does the 3y go ? @amonaroll32 
2y?...

shamil98 · Answer

it's not 2y = 1200 -2x
it's
3y = -2x + 1200
you divide everything by 3 :)

anonymous · Answer

Shoot, sorry about that. Yeah, @shamil98 is correct :)