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Hi Sara,

What you have done is correct, the equation of the line is y = 3x + 24.

The standard form of a line is y = mx + b. In this form m is the slope of the line and b is the y-intercept, that is the point (b, 0) is on the line. That is exactly the form you have, y = 3x + 24. The slope is 3 and (0, 24) is on the line.

Penny

Hi Sara.

Some people get confused between "standard form" and "general form".

General form looks like this:

Ax + By = C

where A, B and C are all integers and A is not negative.

To change your equation

y = 3x + 24

to general form:

3x - y = -24

Cheers,
Stephen La Rocque.

Sara,

We are not sure we are using the terms correctly? Wikipedia says that

Ax + By = C is "standard form"

Ax + By + C = 0 is "general form" and

y = mx + b is just "slope-intercept" form.

Stephen La Rocque.