If you have anything that you're planning to graph, it's got to be an equation
that has 'x' and 'y' in it.
If you have an equation that has 'x' and 'y' in it and you're planning to graph the
equation, then you've had enough elementary algebra to know how to solve the
equation for 'y'. Do that first and bada bing, it'll be in slope/intercept form.
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An intercept is where the graph crosses an axis.A line in slope-intercept form is in the form y = ax + b, where "a" is the slope, and "b" is the y-intercept. For example, if y = 3x -4, the slope of the line is 3, and it crosses the y-axis at -4.
1) You write the equation in slope-intercept form, if it isn't in that form already. 2) An easy way to graph it is to start with the y-intercept. For example, if the intercept is +5, you graph the point (0, 5). Then you add an additional point, according to the slope. For example, if the slope is 1/2, you go 2 units to the right, and one up, and graph a point there.
When you are trying to graph an equation.
Slope = 4.In standard slope-intercept form y = mx + b, with m = slope and b = y-intercept.
y=mx+b is slope-intercept form y - y1 = m(x - x1) is point-slope form Used in algebra based math. On a graph; m is the slope b is the y-intercept x and y represent points