What are the intercepts of $7x-6y=8$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-11-17T12:33:45

To find the x-intercept, let y = 0. Then $x=8/7$ .

To find the y-intercept, let x = 0. Then $y=-8/6=-4/3$ .

The equation of the linear function in standard form is $y=7/6x-4/3$ and the graph is shown below for verification of the intercept points.

graph{7/6x-4/3 [-6.03, 8.015, -3.675, 3.35]}

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