Slope
Vocabulary
Linear or Non-Linear
Write the Formula!
What's the Y-intercept?
100

Find the slope given the following:

f(x) = -5x + 9

What is -5?

100

The place on the y axis where the line crosses

What is the y-intercept?

100

A linear equation looks like this


What is a straight line?

100

A line with a y-intercept of -6 which crosses through point (7,8)?

What is y = 2x - 6?

100

What's the Y-intercept?

The point that the line crosses the y-axis

200

Find the slope using the following points:

(7, 10) (12, 20)

What is 2?

200

The process by which we locate plot points on a line according to the slope?

What is rise over run?

200

Any function for which the value for x is squared?

What is non-linear? 

200

A line with a slope of 1/2 crossing through point (12,-15)

What is y = 1/2x - 21?

200

The value of x at the y-intercept

What is zero?

300

The rate of change of a bucket that loses 5 gallons of water over 2 minutes

What is 2.5 gallons/minute?

300

The place on the graph where x = 0 is the...

What is the y-intercept?

300
True or false, the following equation is linear


y=4x+10

What is true

300

A line that is rising at -288 and running at 12 that intercepts the y axis at (0, 15). 

What is -24x + 15?

300

The y-intercept of the following equation:

y=4x+5

What is 5?

400

The slope of the following formula:

y=10x+4

What is 10?

400

The value of all x's in any given function

What is the domain?

400

Jerry draws a perfect square on a coordinate plane. Mary says it is perfectly linear because all the lines are straight and the angles form perfect 90 degrees. Is she right?

What is NO!

400

The equation for a horizontal line that crosses through point (6,-28)

What is y = -28?

400

Usually the time at the y-intercept

What is zero?

500

The rate of change of a candle that was 24 inches long at noon but is 12 inches long at 6 P.M.

What is 2 inches an hour?

500

The point on a graph where y is set equal to zero is the

What is the x-intercept?

500

The name of the "rule" that says no function can be linear if there is more than one "y" value for any value of "x"?

What is the vertical line test?

500

A line that crosses through the following points:

(2, -10) and (14, -22)

What is y = -x - 8?

500

The y-intercept of the following equation:


y=10x+12

What is 12?

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