The blue line passes through the points
(-2.6, 1) and (-1.4, 2.5)
I will label the coordinates as follows for reference:
[tex]x_1=-2.6,y_1=1,x_2=-1.4,y_2=2.5[/tex]Step 1: Find the slope of the blue line
The slope between two points is calculated with the formula:
[tex]m=\frac{y_2-y_1}{x_2-x_1}[/tex]We substitute the values and we get that the slope of the blue line is:
[tex]m=\frac{2.5-1}{-1.4-(-2.6)}=\frac{1.5}{1.2}=1.25[/tex]The slope m of the blue line is 1.25.
step 2: With that slope, calculate b (the intercept of the blue line with the y axis).
For this we use the point - slope equation:
[tex]y=m(x-x_1)+y_1[/tex]Where we will use the sane x1 and x2 as in the previous step, so we get
[tex]\begin{gathered} y=1.25(x-(-2.6))+1 \\ y=1.25(x+2.6)+1 \\ y=1.25x+3.25+1 \\ y=1.25x+4.25 \end{gathered}[/tex]We compare this with the slope-intercept equation
[tex]y=mx+b[/tex]And we can see that the incercept b is 4.25
[tex]b=4.25[/tex]step 3: Find the value of c.
to find the value of c, we need to know at which point the blue line crosses the x axis.
Since we already have the equation of the blue line y=1.25x+4.25, and the line crosses the x axis at y=0, we substitute this to find the x value that is equal to c:
[tex]\begin{gathered} 0=1.25x+4.25 \\ -4.25=1.25x \\ \frac{-4.25}{1.25}=x \\ -3.4=x \end{gathered}[/tex]The blue line crosses the x axis at (-3.4,0), thus we can conclude that
[tex]c=-3.4[/tex]Step 4: Define the two point where the orange line passes through.
We know from the picture that the orange line passes through (c,0) and (0,-b)
Since we have the values of c = -3.4 and b=4.25, we can say that the orange line passes through (-3.4, 0) and (0, -4.25)
Step 5: Calculate the slope of the orange line.
the orange line passes through (-3.4, 0) and (0, -4.25), so we define:
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