How do you find the x and y intercepts of $y-5.5x=6$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-05-08T06:00:53

The y-intercept is $(0,6)$ .

The x-intercept is $(-6/5.5,0)$ or $(-1.09,0)$ .

Given:

$y-5.5x=6$

Y-intercept: value of $y$ when $x=0$

Substitute $0$ for $x$ and solve for $y$ .

$y-5.5(0)=6$

$y=6$

The y-intercept is $(0,6)$ .

X-intercept: value of $x$ when $y=0$ .

Substitute $0$ for $y$ and solve for $x$ .

$0-5.5x=6$

$-5.5x=6$

Divide both sides by $-5.5$ .

$x=-6/5.5$ or $1.09$

The x-intercept is $(-6/5.5,0)$ or $(-1.09,0)$ .

graph{y-5.5x=6 [-9.58, 10.42, -1.24, 8.76]}

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