How do you find the x and y intercept of $2x-8y=24$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-03-14T23:59:27

$(12,0)$
$(0,-3)$

To find the $x$ -intercept, we set $y=0$ .
Thus,

$2x-8(0)=24$ , and $2x=24$ , so $x=12$ . The point is therefore $(12, 0)$ .

To find the $y$ -intercept, we set $x=0$ .
Thus,

$2(0)-8y=24$ , and $-8y=24$ , so $y=-3$ . The point is therefore $(0, -3)$ .

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