SOLUTION: What is a linear equation?

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Question 464971: What is a linear equation?
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A linear equation is an algebraic equation in which each term is either a constant or the product of a constant and (the first power of) a single variable.
Linear equations can have one or more variables. Linear equations occur with great regularity in applied mathematics.

Examples of linear equations:









Examples of non-linear equations:








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