Chapter 4: Q. 396 (page 537)

In the following exercises, find the equation of a line with a given slope and $y$ -intercept. Write the equation in slope-intercept form.
Slope $- \frac{3}{4}$ and $y$ -intercept $(0, - 2)$ .

Short Answer

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The equation of the line with the given slope $- \frac{3}{4}$ and $y$ -intercept $(0, - 2)$ is $y = - \frac{3}{4} x - 2$ .

Step by step solution

Step 1. Given data

We have to find the equation of the line.

For that we have,

Slope $m = - \frac{3}{4}$

$y$ -intercept $= (0, - 2)$

Step 2. Equation of the line

We have the point-slope formula $y - y_{1} = m (x - x_{1})$

Where $m$ is the slope and $(x_{1}, y_{1})$ is a point through which the line passes.

Here,

$\begin{aligned} m = - \frac{3}{4} \\ (x_{1}, y_{1}) = (0, - 2) \end{aligned}$

Let us substitute these in the point-slope formula,

That is,

$\begin{aligned} y - (- 2) = - \frac{3}{4} (x - 0) \\ y + 2 = - \frac{3}{4} (x - 0) \end{aligned}$

Now we have to rewrite this into slope-intercept form, that is $y = m x + b$

Therefore, substracting from both sides of the equation we get,

^{localid="1647360513878" $\begin{aligned} y + 2 - 2 = - \frac{3}{4} x \\ y = - \frac{3}{4} x - 2 \end{aligned}$}

Hence $y = - \frac{3}{4} x - 2$ is the equation of the line with slope $- \frac{3}{4}$ and $y$ -intercept $(0, - 2)$ .

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In the following exercises, find the equation of a line with a given slope and $y$ -intercept. Write the equation in slope-intercept form.
Slope $- \frac{3}{4}$ and $y$ -intercept $(0, - 2)$ .

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Step 1. Given data

Step 2. Equation of the line

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Slope $- \frac{3}{4}$ and $y$ -intercept $(0, - 2)$ .