SOLUTION: Find the general linear equation ​(Ax+By+C=​0) of a straight line that is horizontal and that passes through ​(-3​,−1​).

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Question 1057013: Find the general linear equation ​(Ax+By+C=​0) of a straight line that is horizontal and that passes through ​(-3​,−1​).
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) About Me  (Show Source):
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Horizontal means that -A%2FB=0, and B%3C%3E0. This means by conclusion that A=0.

Now you have By%2BC=0.

Equation must include point (-3,-1).
No restrictions on x values.


B%2A%28-1%29%2BC=0
-B%2BC=0
C=B


Try working through slope-intercept form, instead, and you could make an easier formed equation, and then turn that result into standard form.
(Note that Ax+By+C=0 is standard form, and not general form).