Straight line graph

Did you notice that when we made the graph of y = 2x + 1 for values of x from 0 to 3 that all of the coordinates we drew were on the same straight line?

Because all of the coordinates are on the same straight line, we only need two coordinates to draw the line.

We could have just plotted the points (0, 1) and (3, 7), for example.

Drawing a line through these points connects all of the points on the line where y = 2x + 1

We can see that the line passes through all of the coordinates given in the table below

x-101234
y-113579