SOLUTION: is 1/2x=0 a linear equation using the linear equation ax+b=0. My thinking is no because it does not a "b" variable.... Am I right with that line of thinking or is it a linear equa
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Question 612470: is 1/2x=0 a linear equation using the linear equation ax+b=0. My thinking is no because it does not a "b" variable.... Am I right with that line of thinking or is it a linear equation ot is it not because of a different reason. Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
Of course it has a "b". b just happens to equal zero in this case so they didn't bother writing it in. But it is there nonetheless. Your equation is linear because the variable is raised to the 1 power. Putting in all of the elements that were left out:
Note that anything raised to the 1 power is just itself.
In the example you gave, the coefficient on doesn't matter, the equation describes the -axis regardless of the value of the coefficient on
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
