How do you find the x intercept for y=2?

1 Answer
Jan 8, 2015

Actually, y=2 doesn't have an x-intercept. This is because the line y=2 is a horizontal line that is parallel to the horizontal x-axis, and parallel lines never intersect. Also, the line y=2 doesn't depend on any x. No matter what x is, no matter how infinitely large or small, y will always be 2 above the x-axis.

To see this visually, this is what the graph of y=2 looks like:

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You can see that the line doesn't ever touch the x-axis, meaning it doesn't have an x-intercept. It has a y intercept though, at the point (0,2).