What is the x and y intercept for x - 2y = 8?

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What is the x and y intercept for x - 2y = 8?

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Answer 1 · 2015-08-15T14:15:34

$x$ -intercept: $(8,0)$
$y$ -intercept: $(0,-4)$

Explanation:

For a general equation of a line written in point-slope form

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the $x$ -intercept can be found by finding the value of $x$ that satisfies the condtiion $y=0$ , and the $y$ -intercept can be found by evaluating the function for $x=0$ .

In your case, you have

$x - 2y = 8$

You can rearrange this equation into slope-point form if you want

$-2y = -x + 8$

$y = 1/2x - 4$

So, for the $x$ -intercept, you need

$y = 1/2x -4 = 0$

$1/2x = 4 implies x = 8$

The $x$ -intercept will thus be $(8, 0)$ .

For the $y$ -intercept, you substitute $x=0$ into the equation

$y = 1/2 * (0) - 4$

$y = -4$

The $y$ -intercept will thus be $(0, -4)$ .

graph{1/2x - 4 [-14.24, 14.24, -7.12, 7.12]}

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