How do you graph $x=0$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-09-08T13:29:37

This is the equation of the y-axis. It is a vertical line through the origin.

Any vertical line has the equation $x = square$

This is because it only has an x-intercept and does not intersect they-axis.

Vertical lines cannot be written in standard form because the slope is undefined.

The equation of the line is given by the x-intercept of the line.

In this case $x=0$ goes though the origin (x=0), which means this is the equation of the y-axis.

[In the same way the equation of the x-axis is $y=0$ ]

How do you graph x=0x=0?