Oh my goodness! I cant figure it out! Help!

y=mx+b?

Very funny u asked I'm learning the same thing.for me it is easy but I'm a straight "A" student so it may be a little easy for me but i can break it down for ya. *Linear equations need to be in the form of Ax+By=C *Ax needs to be greater than or equal to zero *and A and B can not both be zero. *so say you had the equation:3x=5y 3x=5y *u need to subtract 5y from 5y and from 3x which would give you 3x-5x=0 *3x-5x=0 *notice how it is the form of Ax+By=C (which means that the problem is *linear). *that would mean that: A=3 B=-5 C=0 Any questions feel free to ask and i hope that this helps!

[b]hcaldwell5 wrote:[/b] [quote]*Ax needs to be greater than or equal to zero[/quote] ...since when? y=x Take that and put it standard form, Ax+By=C, and you get (-1)x+(1)y=0

[b]hcaldwell5 wrote:[/b] [quote]Very funny u asked I'm learning the same thing.for me it is easy but I'm a straight "A" student so it may be a little easy for me but i can break it down for ya. *Linear equations need to be in the form of Ax+By=C *Ax needs to be greater than or equal to zero *and A and B can not both be zero. *so say you had the equation:3x=5y 3x=5y *u need to subtract 5y from 5y and from 3x which would give you 3x-5x=0 *3x-5x=0 *notice how it is the form of Ax+By=C (which means that the problem is *linear). *that would mean that: A=3 B=-5 C=0 Any questions feel free to ask and i hope that this helps![/quote] First off, you did create a mistake when doing this Algebra problem. When you subtracted 5y from both sides of the equation, you made 5y change to 5x... Meaning, this is how the equation should look: 3x-5y=0 NOT this: 3x-5x=0 If you did 3x-5x=0 then you would have said that -2x is equal to 0... meaning that x would be equal to zero. This would have confused the person you are tutoring, so check your work.. It is ALWAYS helpful!