1. Lyrics
Rise Up (Run Out)
Chorus
Rise up, run out
Weʼre mappinʼ graphs to the RRR sound
Weʼre talkinʼ points and slopes, axes and origins,
y-intercepts, and quadrants, all four of them.
Verse I
The four quadrants start at the top right
Counter-clockwise from the positive x and y
You go around, hit the II and then III,
Bottom left, negative, remember that please.
Now if youʼve got a single point on an x-y grid,
Thereʼs a single pair of values tellinʼ you where it is.
The x coordinate goes side to side,
The y follows the comma to define the pointʼs height.
A straight line between two points is a relation,
You can present it with a linear equation,
y = m times x + b,
If you wanna know the variables listen to me:
m is the slope, thatʼs rise over run,
It tells you how steep the line is gonna become,
b is the intercept, thatʼs how you assess
The point at which the line goes through the y-axis
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Verse II
Letʼs say you got a job and youʼre earninʼ your pay,
You start with 50 bucks and get 9 every day,
If you wanna know over a year how much youʼll get,
Calculatinʼ that graph might be your best bet.
On the x, youʼre measurinʼ one day at a time,
And your money gets tracked on the vertical y.
Now you got some, and you ainʼt even worked yet,
50 bucks, put it up, thatʼs your y-intercept.
After day one you got 59,
Now you got two points, you can start drawinʼ a line.
The slope of the line, remember rise over run,
Itʼs dollars over days and you got 9∕1.
Remember b, I think thatʼs where we started at,
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2. 50 dollars up on your graph, the y-intercept,
And you know y = mx + b,
So now you got y = 9x + 50.
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