document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=7000>Question 7000</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> How do you find out if an equation is linear? </SPAN>\n" );
document.write( "</I><HR><TABLE width=100%><TR><TD><B><A HREF=http://www.algebra.com/>Algebra.Com's</A> Answer #3852 by </B><A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=prince_abubu><B>prince_abubu(198)</B></A><img src=\"/images/stars/stars-09.gif\" alt=\"\" >&nbsp;<A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=prince_abubu><IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/images/aboutme-small.gif BORDER=0 alt=\"About Me\" VALIGN=MIDDLE></A>&nbsp;<IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/images/nopicture.jpg><BR>You can <A HREF=\"/cgi-bin/embed-solution.mpl?show=1&solution=3852\">put this solution on YOUR website!</A><BR><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> By simply looking at it. It's linear if:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "1. There is one and only one variable that it asks you to solve for.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "2. All variables appear in the numerator. (In other words, NO variable should appear in the denominator if there is a fraction).<BR>\n" );
document.write( "3. NO variable appears inside a radical (AKA, inside a square root, cube root, etc.)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "4. The variable MUST be \"to the 1st\" power. (AKA, the variable must NOT be raised to a power. Actually by default, a variable without a power written to the \"northeast\" of it is raised to the 1st power, but that's what makes it linear).<BR>\n" );
document.write( "5. There are no trigonometric functions in it. </SPAN>\n" );
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