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Drawing a line with only its slope?
I can't for the life of me figure this out! I've been looking online and can find the whole y=mx+b thing for finding the slope, but I can't find anything that explains how to draw a line if you only have the slope. I haven't taken this type of math in over 10 years and this is driving me crazy!
Is it possible to only have a slope and work backwards? Or do I need more information and that's why I can't figure this out?
2 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Don't drive yourself crazy any more.
There is no way that you can draw a line when your only information is the slope.
Parallel lines all have the same slope - without a point there is no way to choose from the infinitely many lines having the same slope.
You either need the slope and one point or no slope and two points.
I have PhD in mathematics. You can take my word on this.;)
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- 1 decade ago
we just took this up and finished it. in the mx, the m is the number while x is just basically x. ex:1/4x
the+y is the intersection in the 4 side grid thing witht the positive and negative. sorry i dont remember the name. ex:+2
so the equation would be 1/4x+2.
so you go 1 to the up and 4 to the side. it depends where you go, if the number with x is negative then it falls left to right and if the number with x is positive it rises left to right.
so it would be 1 to up and 4 to the side. while you do that you intersect the no.2
hope i helped
