How do you sketch the graph of a line when your x-intercept and y-intercept is given?

Answer 1

-- With your pencil, place a dot at the x-intecept.

-- Again using your pencil, place a dot at the y-intercept.

-- Lay the pencil aside, and using your ruler, lay its straight edge such that

the edge touches both dots.

-- Now, while deftly stabilizing both the ruler and pencil simultaneously, carefully

draw a straight line along the straight edge of the ruler. Draw it straight and

draw it true. Draw it surely and draw it boldly, but draw it gently, lest thy pencil

point fail, and snap, and you pass in an instant from the wizard to an object of

derision and scorn.

Draw it long or draw it short, the decision is none but yours. For a line hath no

end, and if you draw it from dusk to an hundred dawns, and though you go

where no one has gone before, and though you surely come to believe that an

end is near, you but strive to touch the face of infinity. Yet you triumph even in

your striving, for if your reach did not exceed your grasp, then for gosh sakes,

what would a heaven be for ?