What is an equation of the line that passes through the points (1,8) and (-1, -2)? Put your answer in fully reduced form.

y=5x+3

Step-by-step explanation:

First, we need to find the slope. Remember that the slope equation is .

If we plug in the given points we get m=5. (let me know if you need further elaboration on this step)

So now that we have a slope, we can plug it into the slope-intercept equation.

y=mx+b

y=5x+b

We still need to find b (y-intercept), but luckily, we were given two points that we could plug in. I'm going to use (1,8) here.

8=5(1)+b

8=5+b

b=3

Now we have all of our parts and can put them into the equation.

y=5x+3

Hope this helped!

{x = -1/2 ,   y = -1

step-by-step explanation:

solve the following system:

{2 x + y = -2

{10 x - 3 y = -2

in the first equation, look to solve for y:

{2 x + y = -2

{10 x - 3 y = -2

subtract 2 x from both sides:

{y = -2 x - 2

{10 x - 3 y = -2

substitute y = -2 x - 2 into the second equation:

{y = -2 x - 2

{10 x - 3 (-2 x - 2) = -2

10 x - 3 (-2 x - 2) = (6 x + 6) + 10 x = 16 x + 6:

{y = -2 x - 2

{16 x + 6 = -2

in the second equation, look to solve for x:

{y = -2 x - 2

{16 x + 6 = -2

subtract 6 from both sides:

{y = -2 x - 2

{16 x = -8

divide both sides by 16:

{y = -2 x - 2

{x = -1/2

substitute x = -1/2 into the first equation:

{y = -1

{x = -1/2

collect results in alphabetical order:

answer:   {x = -1/2 ,   y = -1

the answer is 1/4

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