Question

Algebra 2 Help

Answer 1

When graphed in the standard (x,y) coordinate place, the lines x=-5 and y=x-5 intersect at what point?

Answer 2

Do you know how to graph those lines?

Answer 3

not really

Answer 4

Here is graph "paper" ready for graphing.

Answer 5

Let's look at x = -5 first.
Notice that the equation has no y in it.

Answer 6

ok yeah i understand

Answer 7

That means that no matter what the value of y is, x is always -5.
That means you can come up with a few points to graph.
Then you draw a line through them.

Answer 8

oh ok so it can be like (-5,1) and so on so on

Answer 9

For example, let y = 0. x is always -5, so that gives you the point (0, -5).
Now let y = 2. Once again, x is still -5, so this gives us point (-5, 2)

Answer 10

oh ok so then that means that the intersect at (-5,0) ?

Answer 11

You chose y to be 1.
I chose y to be 0 and 2.
Now we have three points.
It really only takes two points to graph a line, so we can graph the line x = -5.

Answer 12

Now we move to our graph "paper" and plot the line x = -5.