Line equation from two points
This online calculator finds the equation of a line given two points it passes through, in slope-intercept and parametric forms

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These online calculators find the equation of a line from 2 points.
First calculator finds the line equation in slope-intercept form, that is, . It also outputs slope and intercept parameters and displays line on a graph.
Second calculator finds the line equation in parametric form, that is, . It also outputs direction vector and displays line and direction vector on a graph.
A bit of theory can be found below the calculators.
Slope-intercept line equation
Let's find slope-intercept form of line equation from the two known points and
.
We need to find slope a and intercept b.
For two known points we have two equations in respect to a and b
Let's subtract the first from the second
And from there
Note that b can be expressed like this
So, once we have a, it is easy to calculate b simply by plugging or
to the expression above.
Parametric line equations
Let's find out parametric form of line equation from the two known points and
.
We need to find components of the direction vector also known as displacement vector.
This vector quantifies the distance and direction of an imaginary motion along a straight line from the first point to the second point.
Once we have direction vector from to
, our parametric equations will be
Note that if , then
and if
, then
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