How do you graph $y=2x-5$ on a coordinate plane?

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Answer 1 · 2016-08-28T08:26:36

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Note that when $x = 0$ , $y = 0-5 = -5$ . So the line intercepts the $y$ axis at $(0, -5)$

Note that when $y = 0$ , $x = 5/2$ . So the line intercepts the $x$ axis at $(5/2, 0)$ .

Drawing a line through these points we get:

graph{2x-5 [-8.915, 11.085, -6.44, 3.56]}

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