Graphs of Lines in Slope Intercept Form

What is a y-intercept?

• The value of y when x is zero

• The value of x when y is zero

• Slope

• where a line intersects the x-axis

In the linear equation

y = mx + b,

what does m stand for?

• Slope

• y-intercept

• Solution

• x-intercept

Tags

CCSS.8.EE.B.6

CCSS.8.F.A.3

Another name for slope is

• y-intercept

• Solution

• Rate of change

• Undefined

Tags

CCSS.8.EE.B.5

Answer explanation

The slope is 3 and the

y-intercept is (0,-4)

Plot the y intercept then use the slope to go up 3 and right 1 from the point plotted.

This point now is (1, -1)

Tags

MAFS.912.A-APR.2.2

What do you do second to graph a line from slope-intercept form?

• Use b to make the y-intercept

• Use m to make the y-intercept

• Use b as the slope to make the next point

• Use m as the slope to make the next point

What do you do first to graph a line from slope-intercept form?

• Use b to make the y-intercept

• Use m to make the y-intercept

• Use b as the slope to make the next point

• Use m as the slope to make the next point

When you graph a line using slope-intercept form (y=mx+b), you graph the ___________ first and then use the ___________ to find the second point.

• origin; slope

• slope; y-intercept

• y-intercept; x-intercept

• y-intercept; slope

The ___________ is the point where a line crosses the x-axis.

• y-intercept

• x-intercept

• domain

• range

Slopes of parallel lines are...

• opposite reciprocals

• the same

• opposites

• always 7

Tags

CCSS.8.EE.B.5

What is another name for the x-intercept of a graph?

• y-intercept

• Zero

• x-axis

• They don't have another name