The x-intercept is where a line crosses the x-axis, and the y-intercept is the point where the line crosses the y-axis. Thinking about intercepts helps us graph linear equations.

I encourage you to pause this video, and figure out what are the x and y-intercepts for the graph that represents the solutions, all the xy pairs that satisfy this equation.

Let's graph -5x + 4y = 20 from its intercepts. Intercepts are the places where a line crosses the x- and y-axes. When a line crosses the x-axis, the y value is 0. That's the x-intercept. When a …

Let's find the x- and y-intercepts of the equation 2y + 1/3x = 12, where a line crosses the x-axis (the x-intercept) and the y-axis (the y-intercept) on a graph. To find the x-intercept, we make y …

Since the table represents a line, there's a constant rate of change of y with respect to x. So we can find that pattern and fill in skipped values from the table to find the y-intercept.

Learn about the slope-intercept form of two-variable linear equations, and how to interpret it to find the slope and y-intercept of their line.

Look at the graph of an equation to find x-intercepts and y-intercepts

In an equation in slope-intercept form (y=mx+b) the slope is m and the y-intercept is b. We can also rewrite certain equations to look more like slope-intercept form. For example, y=x can be …

The x-intercept of a line is the point at which the line crosses the x-axis. In other words, it’s the value of x when y equals zero in the equation of the line.

This table gives a few (x, y) pairs of a line in the coordinate plane. ... What is the x -intercept of the line?