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Properties of Equality
What's the Subtraction Property of Equality?
Solving equations can be tough, especially if you've forgotten or have trouble understanding the tools at your disposal. One of those tools is the subtraction property of equality, and it lets you subtract the same number from both sides of an equation. Watch the video to see it in action!
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What's the Addition Property of Equality?
Solving equations can be tough, especially if you've forgotten or have trouble understanding the tools at your disposal. One of those tools is the addition property of equality, and it lets you add the same number to both sides of an equation. Watch the video to see it in action!
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Identifying Linear Equations
What's Standard Form of a Linear Equation?
A linear equation can be written in many different forms, and each of them is quite useful! One of these is standard form. Watch this tutorial and learn the standard form for a linear equation!
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Working with Point-Slope Form
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What's Point-Slope Form of a Linear Equation?
When you're learning about linear equations, you're bound to run into the point-slope form of a line. This form is quite useful in creating an equation of a line if you're given the slope and a point on the line. Watch this tutorial, and learn about the point-slope form of a line!
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Haley P. My two points are (0,1) and (4,0) but I am not sure how to write it in standard form. I know that the slope which is -1/3. I also know my equation in slope-intercept form, which is y= -1/3x +1. More
2 Answers By Expert Tutors
Kenneth S. answered • 08/21/17
Expert Help in Algebra/Trig/(Pre)calculus to Guarantee Success in 2018
given two points (4,0) and (0,1), the slope m is -1/4. The second point that I listed is, in fact, the y-intercept.
If you want the slope intercept form, then y = -¼•x + 1.
If you want standard form Ax + By =C then I suggest that you multiply the above equation by four and collect both the x and y terms on the left side of the equation, leaving a constant alone on the right side.
Arturo O. answered • 08/21/17
Experienced Physics Teacher for Physics Tutoring
Note the slope is (0-1)/(4-0) = -1/4
The y-intercept is given at (0,1)
The correct equation for the line is:
y = (-1/4)x + 1
Convert to the form:
Ax + By = C, with A, B, and C integers (if possible), and A positive:
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