Slope
Find the slope given the following:
f(x) = -5x + 9
What is -5?
The place on the y axis where the line crosses
What is the y-intercept?
A linear equation looks like this
What is a straight line?
A line with a y-intercept of -6 which crosses through point (7,8)?
What is y = 2x - 6?
What's the Y-intercept?
The point that the line crosses the y-axis
Find the slope using the following points:
(7, 10) (12, 20)
What is 2?
The process by which we locate plot points on a line according to the slope?
What is rise over run?
Any function for which the value for x is squared?
What is non-linear?
A line with a slope of 1/2 crossing through point (12,-15)
What is y = 1/2x - 21?
The value of x at the y-intercept
What is zero?
The rate of change of a bucket that loses 5 gallons of water over 2 minutes
What is 2.5 gallons/minute?
The place on the graph where x = 0 is the...
What is the y-intercept?
y=4x+10
What is true
A line that is rising at -288 and running at 12 that intercepts the y axis at (0, 15).
What is -24x + 15?
The y-intercept of the following equation:
y=4x+5
What is 5?
The slope of the following formula:
y=10x+4
What is 10?
The value of all x's in any given function
What is the domain?
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!
The equation for a horizontal line that crosses through point (6,-28)
What is y = -28?
Usually the time at the y-intercept
What is zero?
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?
The point on a graph where y is set equal to zero is the
What is the x-intercept?
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?
A line that crosses through the following points:
(2, -10) and (14, -22)
What is y = -x - 8?
The y-intercept of the following equation:
y=10x+12
What is 12?