Maths Primary School and The aMAZEing Math Maze

010B

If you're here about Maths Primary School, I talk about that at the end of this page. But, if you missed Question 10a of the aMAZEing Math Maze - well, I'll talk about that first.

You were supposed to look at this line of best fit and match it to the proper formula from the following choices -

a) y = -x + 6

b) y = x + 6

c) y = -x + 3

d) y = x + 3

a) y=-x + 6 ... If the coefficient of x is positive, the line goes up. If it is negative, the line goes down. In this case the coefficient of x is a negative 1, so the line should go down. Choices a) and c) both have the lone going down with a negative coefficient of x. So we can eliminate choices a) and c).

b) y = x + 6 ... This looks like a good choice. What happens when x = 0? Do you see that when x = 0 then y = 6? Does the point (0,6) lie on our line in the chart? It looks much closer to a 3 than a 6 doesn't it?

c) y = -x + 3 ... We already talked about this when we rejected answer a). This line is going up.

d) y = x + 3 .... Yup, that's the correct answer.

Maths Primary School

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