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A straight line has a slope of 1/2 and a y-intercept of -2. On this line, what is the x-coordinate of the point whose y-coordinate is 10?

1. (8)
2. (12)
3. (13)
4. (16)
5. (24)

Hi Guys

Coordinate geometry is a struggling area for me. Purpose of below discussion is to understand a simple question in geometry way, a step ahead of algebraic way.

Answer: Using equation == y=mx+c; we get x = 24

Now, the same question was to answered this way. If intercept is -2 and X intercept was X. Then the slope means the that (X+2, -1) and thus (X+13, 10). Yet that's what I get out of this. I fail to understand how to make this X+13 = 24 now. Kindly help!


For the point intercept form of a line y=mx+b ; m is the slope and (b=y when x=0)
\(Slope = \frac{y2-y1}{x2-x1}\)

we are given slope =1/2

y intercept is always equal to b when x = 0 (therefore at origin we can always write any (x,y) pair as (0,b)
y intercept hence (b) is given -2
now we have got all the values that we want to calculate slope

\(\frac{1}{2}= \frac{10-(-2)}{x-0}\)

\(\frac{1}{2}= \frac{10+2}{x} ==> \frac{1}{2} =\frac{12}{x} ==> x=24\)

CORRECT ANSWER IS E
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A straight line has a slope of 1/2 and a y-intercept of -2. On this line, what is the x-coordinate of the point whose y-coordinate is 10?

1. (8)
2. (12)
3. (13)
4. (16)
5. (24)

We use the slope-intercept formula for a line: y = mx + b, where m = the slope of the line and b = the y-intercept of the line. Therefore, the equation of the line is:

y = (1/2)x - 2

So, if y = 10, then:

10 = x/2 - 2

12 = x/2

24 = x

Answer: E
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