How do you find the x and y intercepts for $y=7x+8$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-26T00:09:27

$x$ -intercept: $x=-8/7$
$y$ -intercept: $y=8$

A graph intercepts the $y$ -axis when $x=0$ and the $x$ -axis when $y=0$ . So, we must plug in zero for both variables, respectively, and solve.

$y$ -intercept ( $x=0$ )

$y=7(0)+8$

$color(blue)(y=8)$

$x$ -intercept ( $y=0$ )

$0=7x+8$

$7x=-8$

$color(lime)(x=-8/7)$

Our intercepts are in blue and lime green. Hope this helps!

How do you find the x and y intercepts for y=7x+8y=7x+8?