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Find an equation for the line that passes through the points (-4, -4) and (6, 2).

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Find an equation for the line that passes through the points (-4, -4) and (6, 2).

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Precalculus with Limits
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Find an equation for the line that passes through the points (-4,-4) and (6,2). Find an equation for the line that passes through the points (-4, --4) and (6, 2) E : 5
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00:01 You want to determine the equational line through the points negative 6, negative 1, and 6, negative 4.
00:06 And i think a good thing to always do is to just quick sketch a graph of this just so you have an idea whether your answers are correct.
00:15 So the first point is negative 6, negative 1.
00:18 Negative 6, negative 1 would be a dot down here.
00:21 And then 6, negative 4 is going to be a dot down here.
00:25 So we can see that the slope should be negative.
00:28 Sorry, that's not so straight.
00:29 And we can approximate where that y -intercept is.
00:32 So let's find the slope first.
00:34 So the slope is the difference in the y's.
00:37 And it doesn't matter which way we subtract.
00:39 I'm going to go negative 4 minus negative 1 over the difference in the x's, 6 minus negative 6.
00:46 So we end up getting for the numerator a negative 3.
00:50 And in the denominator, we get 12...
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