Slope
Vocabulary
Writing Equations
Linear or Non-Linear
Write the Formula!
100

Find the slope given the following:

y = -20/4x + 9

What is -5?

100

The place on the y axis where the line begins to be graphed...

What is the y-intercept?

100

(-3, 4) (2, 7) What is the slope?

3/5

100

True or False:

A parabola is always linear.


What is false?

100

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

What is y = 2x - 6?

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?

Change in y / change in x

200

Write the equation of the line going through the point (0, 9) and m=2/3

What is y = 2/3 x + 9

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?

300

Which is a steeper slope?

Line A    y = 2x + 21

Line B   Y = -3x + 5

Line B;  Even though 2 is more than -3, the steepness is based on the absolute value of the number;  

300

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

What is the y-intercept?

300

Write an equation:

(0,5) (9,10)

What is y = 5/9 x + 5

300

A unit rate graph with a y-intercept of zero is not just linear. It is...

What is proportional?

300

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

What is -24x + 15?

400

The slope of the following formula:

y = -21 + 8x

What is 8?

400

The value of all x's in any given function

What is the Input?

400

Write an equation for the line going through the points (-4, 7) (2, 13)

What is y = x + 11

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?

500

What is the y coordinate when x = 10

(10, y)

y= -6/5x + 10

What is -2?

(10, -2)

500

How do you find b when given a point and a slope?

Use y = mx +b, and input the ordered pair (x,y) for the x and y, and use the slope for m to solve for b.

500

Write an equation for the line going through the points (7, -2) (9, 2)

y = 2x -16

500

How do you determine if a graph is a function?

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?

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