• @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    Serious question: is x = my + b also a slope intercept? Why is it only calculated via the y axis?

    • @[email protected]OP
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      161 year ago

      It’s convention, I think. If I remember correctly, you always put y on the left, because you can also write equations as functions of a variable, x, with the symbology f(x) = mx + b. That way you can integrate and derive the function easily, since m and b are constants, and all your x variables are on one side.

      If I were to encounter x = my + b, the first thing I would do, just by nature at this point, would be to convert it to y = (x - b) / m.

      It’s been a while since I took math, and I was never the best, so others should feel free to correct me.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Correct. Y is a response to X. How does y change as x changes? If I need to achieve this y, what does my x need to be? By convention, y is the dependent variable and x is the independent variable, m is slope, and a, b, c are constants.

  • @[email protected]
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    71 year ago

    … I may have 3am brain, but the intercept is y=b…

    Slope intercept formula???

    That’s a formula for a line, y intercept is x=0…

  • Anna
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    11 year ago

    Or you can take it’s derivative at that point