Section 15.1 Homework Hints

Problems 2-6
There are many problems throughout the text labeled IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Just relax; do not be afraid to give your opinion. Here are some hints:

Problem 2: Use your own words, but remember "to solve" means to find the replacements that make an equation true, and since there are two variables there will me infinitely many such replacements. In order to show all of these, it is necessary to draw a graph.
Problem 3: See the slope-intercept form.
Problem 4: Find the box in the text that describes this process.
Problem 5: See Example 8.
Problem 6: See Figure 15.9.

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