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Analyze function shapes jul 22 2016

The plot shows the graphs of five different equations. Using shape and location, determine which graphed line corresponds to the equation .

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The power of and are both 1, so this is a linear equation of order 1. Therefore, the graph must be a straight line. We can eliminate A and E, since neither are straight lines.

The equation is given in the slope-intercept form, , where stands for the slope of the line and stands for the line's y-intercept. Since , the coefficient of x, is positive here, we are looking for a line that goes upwards. We can eliminate D since it goes downwards, and therefore has a negative slope.

In the given equation, the constant , which represents the y-intercept, is also positive. Therefore, the line we are looking for also must intersect the y-axis at a positive value. The graph C appears to intersect the y-axis at a negative value, whereas the graph B appears to intersect the y-axis at a positive value. Therefore, B is the corresponding graph.

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