a line that passes though the points (0,2) and (-3,5) has the equation :
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the equation of a line in slope intercept form is y=mx+b

m=slope

b=y intercept

The first thing we can do is calculate the slope which is the change in y over the change in x or "rise over run"

2 moving up to 5 is a difference of 3

0 moving left to -3 is a -3

3/-3

we can simplify this to -1

so we know that

y=-1x+b

We still need to find the y intercept. In this case one of our points (0,2) is on the y axis. so we know that the y intercept is 2 because that is where the line crosses the y axis.

The equation then is

y=-1x+2

the coefficent for x isn't really necessary so you could write this as

y=-x+2

The graph of this line looks like this:

 

 

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