How do you find the x and y intercepts of $g (x) = 0.5 x - 3$ $g(x)=0.5x-3$ ?

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How do you find the x and y intercepts of $g (x) = 0.5 x - 3$ $g(x)=0.5x-3$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-04-16T00:40:01

To find the $x$ $x$ - intercept, we set $y = 0$ $y=0$ and solve for $x$ $x$ :
$0 = .5 x - 3$ $0=.5x-3$
$3 = .5 x$ $3=.5x$
$6 = x$ $6=x$

So. the $x$ $x$ -intercept is $(6, 0)$ $(6, 0)$

To find the $y$ $y$ -intercept, it's a similar system We set $x = 0$ $x=0$ and solve for $y$ $y$ this time.
$y = .5 \cdot 0 - 3$ $y=.5*0-3$
$y = - 3$ $y=-3$
That was easy :)

So, our $y$ $y$ -intercept is $(0, - 3)$ $(0, -3)$

Just to double check our work, let's graph the equation and see the $x$ $x$ and $y$ $y$ intercepts

graph{y=.5x-3}

Yep, $(6, 0)$ $(6, 0)$ and $(0, - 3)$ $(0, -3)$ . We were right!

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