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    A linear equation is an algebraic equation where each term is either a constant or the product of a constant and a single variable. Linear equations can have one or more variables and their solutions form a straight line. While linear equations arise naturally in modeling phenomena, they are also useful as non-linear equations can sometimes be approximated by linear equations. Linear equations do not include exponents and can be written in various forms including general, point-slope, two-point, intercept, polar, and normal forms. Linear equations can also involve more than two variables.

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    A linear equation is an algebraic equation where each term is either a constant or the product of a constant and a single variable. Linear equations can have one or more variables and their solutions form a straight line. While linear equations arise naturally in modeling phenomena, they are also useful as non-linear equations can sometimes be approximated by linear equations. Linear equations do not include exponents and can be written in various forms including general, point-slope, two-point, intercept, polar, and normal forms. Linear equations can also involve more than two variables.

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    A linear equation is an algebraic equation where each term is either a constant or the product of a constant and a single variable. Linear equations can have one or more variables and their solutions form a straight line. While linear equations arise naturally in modeling phenomena, they are also useful as non-linear equations can sometimes be approximated by linear equations. Linear equations do not include exponents and can be written in various forms including general, point-slope, two-point, intercept, polar, and normal forms. Linear equations can also involve more than two variables.

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    A linear equation is an algebraic equation where each term is either a constant or the product of a constant and a single variable. Linear equations can have one or more variables and their solutions form a straight line. While linear equations arise naturally in modeling phenomena, they are also useful as non-linear equations can sometimes be approximated by linear equations. Linear equations do not include exponents and can be written in various forms including general, point-slope, two-point, intercept, polar, and normal forms. Linear equations can also involve more than two variables.

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    The key takeaways are that a linear equation is an algebraic equation involving a single variable where each term is either a constant or the product of a constant and the variable. Linear equations can have one or more variables and their solutions form a straight line.

    A linear equation can be written in general form, point-slope form, two-point form, intercept form, polar form, normal form, and matrix form.

    The graphs of two linear equations can be parallel if they have the same slope but different y-intercepts, or perpendicular if the product of their slopes is -1.

    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.
    While they arise quite naturally when modeling many phenomena, they are
    particularly useful since many non-linear equations may be reduced to linear
    equations by assuming that quantities of interest vary to only a small extent from
    some "background" state. Linear equations do not include exponents.
    Linear equations in two variables ( y = mx + b )
    The origin of the name "linear" comes from the fact that the
    set of solutions of such an equation forms a straight line in the
    plane. In this particular equation, the constant m determines
    the slope or gradient of that line, and the constant term b
    determines the point at which the line crosses the y-axis,
    otherwise known as the y-intercept.
    Equations of the straight line
    General (or standard) form
    In the general (or standard) form the linear equation is written as:
    Ax + By = C
    Pointslope form
    y - y1 = m(x - x1), where
    m - the slope of the line
    (x1,y1) - any point on the

    line

    Two-point form
    (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) are two points on the line
    x1
    m = (y2 y1)/(x2 x1) the slope

    with x2

    Intercept form

    where a and b must be nonzero. The graph of the equation has x-intercept a and yintercept b. The intercept form is in standard form with A = 1/a and B = 1/b.
    Polar form
    where m is the slope of the line and b is the yintercept.

    Normal form
    The normal segment for a given line is defined to be the line segment drawn from
    the origin perpendicular to the line. This segment joins the origin with the closest
    point on the line to the origin. The normal form of the equation of a straight line is
    given by:
    where is the angle of inclination of the normal segment, and p is the length of the
    normal segment.

    Matrix form
    Using the order of the standard form:
    Ax + By = C
    one can rewrite the equation in matrix form:
    Further, this representation extends to systems of linear equations.
    becomes
    There are named methods for solving simultaneous linear equations like GaussJordan which can be expressed as matrix elementary row operations.

    Connections between two linear equations


    The graphs are paralel one to each other
    y1 = m1x1 + b1
    y2 = m2x2 + b2
    m = m1 = m2, b1 = b2 or b1 b2
    The graphs are perpendicular one on each other

    Connection with linear functions


    A linear equation, written in the form y = f(x) whose graph crosses through the
    origin, that is, whose y-intercept is 0, has the following properties:
    and
    where a is any scalar. A function which satisfies these properties is called a linear
    function.

    Linear equations in more than two variables


    A linear equation can involve more than two variables. The general linear equation
    in n variables is:
    In this form, a1, a2, , an are the coefficients, x1, x2, , xn are the variables, and b is
    the constant. When dealing with three or fewer variables, it is common to replace
    x1 with just x, x2 with y, and x3 with z, as appropriate.
    Such an equation will represent an (n1)-dimensional hyperplane in n-dimensional
    Euclidean space (for example, a plane in 3-space).

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