Can someone help me with a question for a medal please???
Sure, just ask :)
Choose the system of equations which matches the following graph.
The options are: 5x − y = 7 2x − y = 0 5x − y = 7 2x + y = 0 5x + y = −7 2x + y = 0 5x + y = −7 2x − y = 0
Ugh, hang on let me get rid of the question marks
Do you want the answer or an explanation (which would be rather long)?
Answer first, than explanation?
I am confused so I would like to know how its done so I can figure it out if there is another question similar to this one
Finding the equation with the negative slope is easy. Do you know what the y-intercept is? And can you figure out the slope?
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Hang on, I'll retype the answers so it will be easier for us
5x - y = 7 2x - y = 0 5x - y = 7 2x + y = 0 5x + y = -7 2x + y = 0 5x + y = -7 2x - y = 0
Do you see how the y-intercept is 0 and the slope is -2?
Yeah
Ok great so we can use y = mx + b plug in m and b y = -2x + 0 y = -2x
Which is the same as 2x - y = 0 Already we see the answer must be A or D
To find the second line's equation is a little harder
We don't know the y-intercept, but we can use the point-slope formula |dw:1414195568018:dw|
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