01-07-2010, 04:28 PM
Ok, let's not poke fun of the old lady who doesn't know how to do math...hilarious
There is a problem that I have never been able to figure out, and it's biting me hard in ALEKS. I've spent the past 45 minutes overriding ALEKS' attempt at getting me to move to a new topic- and another 20 minutes on google...still unsure.
So, the question is about finding the rise and run when you are given the y intercept point. Here is what I know:
y=mx+b
What continues to confuse me is the exact rule for finding rise and run. I thought that you go from Y to X, but that doesn't always work. Some questions they seem to go from Y to X, but others from X to Y. Is it a right/left thing? An up/down thing? A negative into positive thing? As you know, if you go in the wrong direction you'll end up wrong lol. (or at least I know that!) What's the freakin rule here???
:mad:
There is a problem that I have never been able to figure out, and it's biting me hard in ALEKS. I've spent the past 45 minutes overriding ALEKS' attempt at getting me to move to a new topic- and another 20 minutes on google...still unsure.
So, the question is about finding the rise and run when you are given the y intercept point. Here is what I know:
y=mx+b
What continues to confuse me is the exact rule for finding rise and run. I thought that you go from Y to X, but that doesn't always work. Some questions they seem to go from Y to X, but others from X to Y. Is it a right/left thing? An up/down thing? A negative into positive thing? As you know, if you go in the wrong direction you'll end up wrong lol. (or at least I know that!) What's the freakin rule here???
:mad:
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