What is slope and how is it determined from a graph? How do you determine the intercepts from an equation or graph? How can linear equations and functions be written and graphed?

The slope is the steepness or incline of a line. From a graph, it is known as the rise over the run between two integer values. If you have a point at (1,1) and a point at (2,2), the rise (vertical difference) between them in 1 unit, and the run (horizontal difference) is 1 unit. 1/1 is 1, so the slope of a line that passes through these points is 1. This means that for every one unit to the right it goes, it goes one unit up.

The intercepts are where the line hits the x and y axes. By looking at a graph, you can find the y-intercept by seeing on what y-value the line intersects with the y-axis, and for the x-intercept you do so with the x-axis.

The slope-intercept equation is y=mx+b. This b is the y-intercept. To find the x-intercept, you plug in the value 0 for y and solve for x. This is because the x-axis is the line y=0, so you will see where the x is if y is equal to 0.

Linear equations and functions can be written in slope intercept form (y=mx+b), standard form (Ax+By=C), and point slope form [tex]y-y_{1} =m(x-x_{1} )[/tex].

They can be graphed by finding the y and x intercepts from the equation and then connecting the points to draw the line!

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