Question 990578: You can find the area of a square using the equation s to the second power equals a, where s equals the side length and a the area. Is this a linear relationship? How do you know?
Found 2 solutions by stanbon, Timnewman:
Answer by stanbon(75887)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! You can find the area of a square using the equation s to the second power equals a, where s equals the side length and a the area. Is this a linear relationship? How do you know?
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A = s^2
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Not linear
Why?:: variable "s" is raised to the 2nd power.
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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Answer by Timnewman(323)  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! If  ,
Then,The above equation is aquadratic equation not linear equation.The reason is that quadratic equation is a degree two equation(i,e,the variable is in the power of two) but linear equation is always a degree one equation.(i.e,the variable(s) is in the power of one.
If it is in degree three,it is called cubic equation.
Note that all these belong to a class called polynomial.
HOPE THIS HELPS?
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