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All right tessa Mash members Here we go Another question

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thrown at your head like a curveball from a baseball

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diamond The graph of which the following equations is a

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line that has a why intercept below zero and decreases

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as you move from left to right So why intercept

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below zero What does that mean It's going to intersect

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or intercept the y axis This vertical thing below zero

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so somewhere down here and it's going to decrease from

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left to right i mean it's a negative slope so

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we can already just looking at this get rid of

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cnd because those have positive slopes right You got two

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thirds that's positive and five x there that's positive So

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we've narrowed down our things here real quick We love

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slope it's our thing increase decrease Fight fight fight That's

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The cheerleaders had shmoop high just outside of dallas and

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they're not very inspiring football or basketball games but they're

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awesome supporters of the mathletes in the math club welcome

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to shmoop if a graph decreases as we move left

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to right across the coordinate play me why values become

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smaller is the x values become larger that's the definition

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of a negative slope we say slope you say intercepts

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low intercept slope intercept the cheerleaders sure know their playbook

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in the general slope intercept form y equals mx plus

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b m represents thus slow conveniently all the answer choices

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Aeryn this form so we can see that on ly

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the equations why equals negative two x minus a a

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and y equals negative three force acts be both have

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negative slopes right So the correct line should have a

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why intercept below zero That doesn't mean it's freezing It

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means the line crosses the y axis at a negative

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value somewhere down here on this little pretty graph in

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the slope intercept equation y equals mx plus b the

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b is the y intercept for the line to intercept

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the access below Zero b must be negative right So

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so you got the negative eight there in that matches 00:01:53.419 --> [endTime] so that's it that's the answer It's a

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