How do you graph the line #y = 3x + 1#?

1 Answer
Jul 25, 2016

To graph a straight line you only need to find two points on the line

Explanation:

You have to find two points on the line, that is, two points that satisfy the equation #y=3x+1#. But using the equation of the line if you take #x=0#, you get #y=1#, so the point #(0, 1)# is on the line. Similarly, you can take #x=1# and the equation gives you #y=4#, so the point #(1, 4)# belongs to the line. Now you only need to mark these two points on a graph, and draw the line going through them, like so:

graph{3x+1 [-10, 10, -4.44, 5.56]}

Of course, any other pair of points on the line would have been the same, such as #(2, 7)# and #(3, 10)# for example