A student wrote the equation of this line as y=1/5x. What mistake did she nake?

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Carissa

Mathematics

24 April, 10:23

A student wrote the equation of this line as y=1/5x. What mistake did she nake?

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Tiana Cooke · Answer 1

The student is wrong in not putting a parenthesis between 1/3 and x. An equation of a line has a general equation of y = mx + b where m is the slope and b is the y-intercept. In this case, most likely 1/3 is the slope and 0 is the y-intercept. However, writing the equation like that seems like the x variable is a denominator and if that is the case the equation will not represent a line already.