Write an equation for the line that passes through (4, 5) and (6, 7).
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y=x+1

Step-by-step explanation:

The first step I took was to find the slope. A slope is equal to the rise over the run. The equation goes up 2 for every 2 it goes over, which means that the slope is 2/2 or 1. Then you need to determine the y intercept. I usually go about this by thinking logically about the problem. Because there is a point at (4,5) and the slope is 1, there must also be a point at (3,4) (2,3) (1,2) and (0,1) Because the x value in (0,1) is 0, we know that the y intercept must be 1, so I added 1 to the equation. The last step is putting it all together. We know that a linear equation is y=mx+b (m being the slope, b being the y-intercept) so the final equation is y=x+1