What is the y-intercept of the line represented by the equation y = 2x - 3?
1 Answer
Jun 29, 2016
y-intercept = - 3
Explanation:
The equation of a line in
#color(blue)"slope-intercept form"# is
#color(red)(|bar(ul(color(white)(a/a)color(black)(y=mx+b)color(white)(a/a)|)))#
where m represents the slope and b, the y-intercept.The advantage to having the equation in this form is that m and b can be extracted 'easily'.
the equation here : y = 2x - 3 is in this form and by comparison can obtain that
y-intercept = - 3
