Writing Linear Equations
Description – Writing linear equations in slope-intercept form from verbal models and from graphs. Using cell phone billing rates and sky diving as example problems for turning a verbal model into a linear equation.
Activities – Multimedia Tutorial
Objectives
- From a verbal model writing a linear equation
- Identify the rate in a verbal model
- Identify slopes as the rate in a verbal model
- Identifying the variable in a verbal model
- Writing a linear equation of form y = mx + b from a graph
- Learn to choose points of a graph to calculate points
- Learn slope classifications (m=0, m<0, m>0 and undefined)
Tags
writing linear equations, slope, slope intercept, word problems
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