Plotting Straight Line Graphs

a) y=x+5 b) y=x+6
x 0 1 2 x 0 1 2
y 15 26 3
7 y 16 2 3
8
7
x y x y

x x

What is the gradient of the graph above? ___ 2 What is the gradient of the graph above? ___ 1
What is the y-intercept? ___5 What is the y-intercept? ___
6
Can you link this to the equation of the line? Can you link this to the equation of the line?
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c) y = 2x + 1 d) y = 2x - 4
x 0 1 2 x 0 1 2
y 11 32 3 y 1
-4
2
-2
3
0
5
x y x y

x x

What is the gradient of the graph above? ___ 2 What is the gradient of the graph above? ___ 2
What is the y-intercept? ___1 What is the y-intercept? ___-4
Can you link this to the equation of the line? Can you link this to the equation of the line?
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 e) y = 3x + 2 f) y = 3x - 7
x 0 1 2 x 0 1 2
y 12 25 38 y 1
-7
2
-4
3
-1
x y x y

x x

What is the gradient of the graph above? ___ 3.5 What is the gradient of the graph above? ___ 3.5
What is the y-intercept? ___2 What is the y-intercept? ___-7
Can you link this to the equation of the line? Can you link this to the equation of the line?
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g) y = 10 - x h) y = 10 – 2x
x 0 1 2 x 0 1 2
y 1
10 92 38 y 1
10
28 3
6
x y x y
10

x x

What is the gradient of the graph above? -1.5

___ What is the gradient of the graph above? 0.5___
What is the y-intercept? ___10 10
What is the y-intercept? ___
Can you link this to the equation of the line? Can you link this to the equation of the line?
__________________________________ __________________________________
 i) y+x=5 j) y+x=7
y y

x x

What is the gradient of the graph above? ___ 1 What is the gradient of the graph above? ___ 1
What is the y-intercept? ___5 What is the y-intercept? ___7
Can you link this to the equation of the line? Can you link this to the equation of the line?
__________________________________ __________________________________

k) 2y + x = 12 l) 2x + y = 12
y y

x x

What is the gradient of the graph above? 0.5___ What is the gradient of the graph above? ___ 2
What is the y-intercept? ___6 What is the y-intercept? ___12
Can you link this to the equation of the line? Can you link this to the equation of the line?
__________________________________ __________________________________

What do you notice about the 2 equations for k) and l)? _________________________________
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What about the gradients of the lines? ____________________________________________
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 Investigation: Plot an equation of your choice. Now, reverse the positions of the y and x, and
plot the new graph on the same axes. What do you notice? Is this always true?
y

Equation I chose:

2x+y=9
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x
Equation with x and y switched:

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2y+x=9

Equation I chose:

2x+y=10
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x
Equation with x and y switched:

2y+x=10
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