Question

Write the equation of the line that has an x-intercept of -3 and passes through the point (-3, 7).

Answer 1

@hhelpplzzzz

Answer 2

What does "x-intercept" mean in terms of the value of \(x\) and \(y\)?

Answer 3

are you sure you don't mean y-intercept of -3?

Answer 4

No it says x-intercept

Answer 5

(just want to be sure we work on the right problem!)

okay, x-intercept it is. What does "x-intercept" mean?

Answer 6

it's where a line goes through the X line

Answer 7

okay, so what is the value of y there? the value of x must be the value of the x-intercept

Answer 8

I dont know...

Answer 9

Can you write an equation that gives you a line right on top of the x-axis?

Answer 10

Isn't the x-axis simply the line \(y = 0\)? Just like the y-axis is the line \(x=0\)?

Answer 11

That means that at the x-intercept point, the y value is 0, so our second point is \((\text{x-intercept}, 0)\), right?