SOLUTION: Identify whether it is an expression or equation: -7c + 6d -3ab + 6 =2c + b

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Question 1089882: Identify whether it is an expression or equation:
-7c + 6d -3ab + 6 =2c + b

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20063) About Me  (Show Source):
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An equation always contains an equal sign "=".
But an Expression does not.

Look at 

matrix%281%2C3%2C%0D%0A%0D%0A-7c+%2B+6d+-3ab+%2B+6%2C%22%22=%22%22%2C2c+%2B+b%29

See the equal sign =?  What does that tell you?

Now what's on the left side of the = sign

-7c+%2B+6d+-3ab+%2B+6

is an expression, and what's on the right side
of the = sign 

2c+%2B+b

is also an expression, because they do not contain
an = sign.  But

matrix%281%2C3%2C%0D%0A%0D%0A-7c+%2B+6d+-3ab+%2B+6%2C%22%22=%22%22%2C2c+%2B+b%29

contains an equal sign, so it is an equation.

Edwin