How do you find the x and y intercepts for $13 x - 20 y = 17$ $13 x-20 y= 17$ ?

Question

1778 views around the world

You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License

Answer 1 · 2015-11-26T16:24:42

x-intercept is $(\frac{17}{13}, 0)$ $(17/13, 0)$
y-intercept is $(0, - \frac{17}{20})$ $(0, -17/20)$

To solve for x-intercept, we let y= 0

$13 x - 20 (0) = 17$ $13x -20(0)= 17$

$\frac{13 x}{13} = \frac{17}{13}$ $(13x)/13 = 17/13$

$x = \frac{17}{13} \Rightarrow (\frac{17}{13}, 0)$ $x= 17/13 => (17/13, 0)$

To solve for y-intercept, let x= 0

$13 (0) - 20 y = 17$ $13(0) -20 y = 17$

$\frac{- 20 y}{- 20} = \frac{17}{- 20}$ $(-20y)/-20 = 17/(-20)$

$y = - \frac{17}{20} \Rightarrow (0, - \frac{17}{20})$ $y = -17/20 => (0, -17/20)$

How do you find the x and y intercepts for 13x−20y=1713 x-20 y= 17?