Line with x-intercept or y-intercept or both

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Question
Does a line need to have both the x-intercept and y-intercept? Why?
Answer
This depends on how the line looks like. Now, if the line is parallel to the x-axis, it has only y-intercept as shown below:

y-intercept

If the line is parallel to the y-axis, then it will have only x-intercept as shown below:

x-intercept

Finally, if the line is slanted, it will have both the x-intercept and y-intercept. This is shown below:

x-intercept


Hope this helps...



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Oct 05, 2011
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please help me solve this equation
by: susy

please solve y=-2/3x-1 the slope, the y-int., and the x-int.

Jun 12, 2010
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FANTASTIC
by: mustafa

Realy Fantasic,But I have one qustion: Find X-intercept & y-Intercept for Y1=0.62,Y2=0.97 linar scale, X1=10,X2=100 Logarthmic scale
E-mail:mustafa_hadi2@yahoo.com
Thank you

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