How do you find the x and y intercepts for $y= -2x + 4$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-26T13:20:53

y-intercept (c) $= 4$
$x = 2$

The y-intercept is easily found by $y=mx+c$ . In this equation, the y-intercept is 4.

To find $x$ , equate the equation to 0 and solve for $x$ :

$y=-2x+4$
$0=-2x+4$
$2x=4$
$x=4/2$
$x=2$

How do you find the x and y intercepts for y= -2x + 4y= -2x + 4?