Question

How do you find a standard form equation for the line with P (0, 0) and is parallel to the line y = 2x - 5?

Answer 1

`y=2x`

Explanation:

A parallel line has the same slope, so it must be of the form:

`y=2x+b` where `b` is the `y`-intercept.

Since this is at `(0,0)->b=0`