Question

How do you find the x and y intercepts for `5x + 10y = 30`?

Answer 1

`color(brown)("x-intercept "= 6, " y-intercept " = 3`

Explanation:

To find x & y intercepts of equation `5x + 10 y = 30`

Making y = 0,

`5x + 0 = 30, " or " x = 30 / 5 = 6`

Similarly, making x = 0,

`10y = 30 " or " y = 3`

This can be seen from the graph below :

graph{-(1/2)x + 3 [-10, 10, -5, 5]}