Hi - I was wondering if someone could help clarify a question I had on Coordinate Geometry Progress Quiz #3, Question 13. For the last one “If the product of a line’s x and y intercepts is 0, the line definitely passes through the origin.” This is marked as true. However, I was thinking if x=5 (a line example provided from earlier in quiz #3), then the y would = 0, which makes the product 0. However, this would be an example of it not passing through the origin.
Can you please help me understand where I could have misunderstood the question / answer?
Does x = 5 even have a x-intercept?
Sorry I’m confused
As the question says. What would be the x and y-intercepts for x = 5?
Wouldn’t y = 0?
You mean the y-intercept? No, because the line x = 5 never touches the y-axis.