What are the intercepts for horizontal and vertical line graphs?

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What are the intercepts for horizontal and vertical line graphs?

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-14T12:09:22

$Horizontal line x = a$ $color(blue)("Horizontal line " x = a$

$Vertical line y = b$ $color(purple)("Vertical line " y = b$

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Refer table above.

$Equation of a line in Intercept Form is given by$ $"Equation of a line in" color(red)("Intercept Form") "is given by"$

$\frac{x}{a} + \frac{y}{b} = 1, where a in x-intercept and b the y-intercept$ $x / a + y / b = 1, " where a in x-intercept and b the y-intercept"$

For a horizontal line, y = 0 or y/b = 0 and the equation becomes,

$\frac{x}{a} = 1 or x = a$ $x / a = 1 " or " x = a$

Similarly, for a vertical line, x = 0 or x / a = 0 and the equation becomes,

$\frac{y}{b} = 1 or y = b$ $y / b = 1 " or " y = b$

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