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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Medal and fan!!

OpenStudy (anonymous):

anybody good at graphing?

OpenStudy (sweetburger):

sure whats your question?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I need to find the slope and y-intercept to help my friend with her hw.... heres the graph

OpenStudy (anonymous):

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Do you know the slope of that graph?

OpenStudy (sweetburger):

lets start by looking at the y-intercept just by looking where does the line look like it crosses the y-intercept?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Actually, I'll let sweet handle this, he seems better at this than I.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

okay it looks like it crosses at 1

OpenStudy (anonymous):

so is that the y-intercept?

OpenStudy (sweetburger):

\[M= y2-y1/x2-x1\]

OpenStudy (sweetburger):

and yes your y intercept is at y=1 or (0,1)

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Okay! Now slope!

OpenStudy (sweetburger):

now the formula i just gave you will be how you will find your slope

OpenStudy (anonymous):

oh okay hang on

OpenStudy (sweetburger):

pick 2 different easily identifiable points on the line and plug them into the equation

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Okay Is the slope 3/1?

OpenStudy (sweetburger):

here you almost got it ill draw it out for you

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Okay thank you

OpenStudy (sweetburger):

i used points (0,1|dw:1402079685562:dw|) and (1,-2)

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