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Algebra I Drill 4, Problem 1. What is the equation of the graph shown?

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00:03

Here’s your shmoop du jour…

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What is the equation of the graph shown below?

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And here are the potential answers…

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So… what is this question asking?

00:15

Can we make an equation out of thin air?

00:17

Just watch as we do our best David Blaine impression…

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Y equals mx plus b is the standard point slope form of an equation

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and there are a few ways to get the answer.

00:27

For starters, we can figure out the slope of the line just by looking at the graph and

00:31

finding the y intercept, and… we’re pretty much there.

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So if we look at the line, it heads downward into the great abyss,

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so we know that the slope, or m, is gonna be negative.

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How negative? Well, slope is rise over run.

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In this case, the rise – or anti-rise – goes

00:49

down two for every one that the line moves horizontally…

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…which gives us a slope of negative 2. Note that the line intersects the y axis at

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negative 1… so we know that b is negative y.

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Now we have our equation – y equals negative 2x minus 1.

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And our answer is D.

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As in, “David Blaine.”

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