How do I quickly and easily interpolate a point on a chart without given data?

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I completely forgot how to do this. I have a thermo test coming up and i will be interpolating a lot of data. What is the fastes/easiest way to interpolate a point on a chart not given?
 

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yea already looked at that...The first eq. on this site is much easier but someitmes it does not work http://engineering.union.edu/~brunob/mer026/Thermo%20intro%20interpolation.doc
 
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usfz28 on linear interpolation said:
someitmes it does not work
when is that?
 
Think of how the data would appear on a cartesian graph. Represent the two boundary points as a line. You only need simple elementary algebra about equations for a line to find the missing coordinate.