How do you find the x and y intercept of $4x + y = 5$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-06-29T07:10:04

$x$ -intercept is $5/4$ and $y$ -intercept is $5$ .

For finding $y$ -intercept put $x=0$ , which gives $y=5$

and for finding $x$ -intercept put $y=0$ , which gives $x=5/4$

Hence $y$ -intercept is $5$ and $x$ -intercept is $5/4$ .

Alternatively if $y$ -intercept is $a$ and $x$ -intercept is $b$ , the equation of line is given by $x/a+y/b=1$ .

For converting $4x+y=5$ into this form let us divide each side by $5$ , which gives

$(4x)/5+y/5=1$ or

$x/(5/4)+y/5=1$ and hence

$x$ -intercept is $5/4$ and $y$ -intercept is $5$ .

How do you find the x and y intercept of 4x + y = 5 4x + y = 5 ?