[email protected] wrote:A line is graphed on a coordinate plane. How many times less is the distance between the y-intercept and the x-axis than the distance between the x-intercept and the y-axis?
1.The slope of the line is −9/13.
2.The y-intercept is located at (0, 26).
It's of great help to rephrase the complex wordings to the easy one before anything. For example "the distance between the y-intercept and the x-axis" simply means the 'y-intercept', and "the distance between the x-intercept and the y-axis" simply means the 'x-intercept'. Now, the rephrased question is:
A line is graphed on a coordinate plane. How many times less is the y-intercept than the x-intercept of the line?
(1) We know that the slope of a line also equals to -y-intercept/x-intercept, and if -y-intercept/x-intercept = -9/13, then we know the ratio between the two quantities and the question can be answered. Sufficient
(2) Location of y-intercept only doesn't answer the slope or any other requirement of the question, [spoiler]
hence insufficient.
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