Answer:
There are several different ways to get the x-intercept and y-intercept of an equation. The way that I usually do it is setting one of the variables to zero and finding what the other variable is equal to. For example, if we set x to 0 that means that we are finding the y-intercept as the value of x is 0 which is the y-axis. This is also how it works when setting y to 0. First lets find the x intercept by setting y to 0.
[tex]3x - 2y = 6[/tex]
[tex]3x - 2(0) = 6[/tex]
[tex]\frac{3x}{3} = \frac{6}{3}[/tex]
[tex]x = 2[/tex]
We now know that the x-intercept is 2 and now we need to determine what the y-intercept is. Now we can just set the x to 0 and find the y-intercept.
[tex]3x - 2y = 6[/tex]
[tex]3(0) - 2y = 6[/tex]
[tex]\frac{-2y}{-2} = \frac{6}{-2}[/tex]
[tex]y =- 3[/tex]
Therefore, we know that our x-intercept is (2, 0) and our y-intercept is (0, -3) because the first spot in the coordinate pair is the x-value and the second one is the y-value.
Hope this helps
