How do I do the y=mx+b, cartesian type thing, it sounds like something out of a novel by orwell i know?

Question

In as much detail and plain english as possible

I think it was newspeak hehhe

Answer 1

it is the equation of a straight line
given in the slope,y intercept form
substituting different values for any one variable
x or y we can find the corresponding value of the other
m=slope or gradient
= the tangent of the angle the line makes with
the positive direction of the xs-axis
b=the 'y' intercept that is where it cuts the y-axis

Answer 2

I'm assuming you're trying to plot a line, so here we go. Get yourself a sheet of graph paper. In the bottom lefthand corner, label it as zero. Along the bottom of the graph, label the lines (not the spaces) with numbers, 1,2,3,4... well, you can count. Do the same thing up the left side of the graph, 1 above the zro in the corner, 2 above that, etc. The bottom is the 'x', and the side is the 'y'. 'm' and 'b' are numbers, different ones depending on which line you want ot graph. Let's do y=2x+3. Choose a number for 'x' - how about 1? If 'x' is 1, you have y=2 times 1 plus 3, which is 5. Now, go to your graph: on the bottom, count over to 1 (this is the value of 'x'). Go up to 5 (this is the value of 'y' when 'x'=1). Make a dot where those two lines cross. If you do this again with 'x'=2, 'y' will equal 7, so go across to 2 and up to 7, and make another dot. If you keep doing this, you will see that the dots line up in a diagonal. Get out a ruler and draw a straight line through all those dots. Congratulations, you have just plotted a straight line!

Answer 3

This is not Newthink.This is a totally different language from English.
Newthink was the prescribed propaganda of the controlling oligarchy in "Nineteen Eighty Four" to dumb the populace down.The animals in "Animal Farm" were fooled by the mathematically false dictum "all animals are equal but some are more equal than others".
Your equation is that of a straight line which crosses the y axis at b and the x axis at -b/a and where the slope is m.It is a mathematical convention totally immune to compromise by dictatorial spruiking (look it up).

Answer 4

Hi. What are you solving for? I would guess "x". Just solve algebraically. Divide both sides by "m" and subtract "b" from both sides. x=y/m-b