A linear equation is drawn as a straight line on a set of axes.
To draw the graph we need coordinates.
We generate these coordinates by substituting values into the linear equation.
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How to draw a graph of a linear equation
A linear equation is represented as a line graph. In order to draw the line graph we require several pairs of coordinates. These coordinates represent the relationship given in the equation.
For example, for y = 3x, the y value is always equal to '3 lots' of the x value. (1,3), (10,30) and (2.5,7.5) are all coordinates on the line y = 3x.
Often a table of values is used to create the coordinates. We use substitution to calculate the values.
For example y = 2x + 1
The y value is always '2 lots' of the x value plus 1.
We replace the value of x for different numbers and record the resulting y value.
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