What does the line 5x - 13y = 7 look like?
Question 1 options:
horizontal
vertical
slanted right upwards
slanted right downwards
well, the slope is +5/13, so what do you think?
If that doesn't help, plot the line. The easiest way is to plot the two intercepts.
x=0: y=-7/13
y=0: x=7/5
and draw the line between them
slanted up right
To determine the shape of the line represented by the equation 5x - 13y = 7, we can rearrange the equation into slope-intercept form, y = mx + b, where m represents the slope of the line and b represents the y-intercept.
Rearranging the equation:
5x - 13y = 7
-13y = -5x + 7
y = (5/13)x - 7/13
Now we can see that the slope of the line is 5/13.
When the slope of the line is positive, the line slants upwards from left to right, and when the slope is negative, the line slants downwards from left to right.
In this case, the slope is positive, so the line slants right upwards. Therefore, the answer is slanted right upwards.