Exercise 45 Page 82

To determine if the given equation is a linear equation, let's first see if we can rewrite it in slope-intercept form. y=mx+bIn this form, m is the slope and b is the y-intercept.

This is the slope-intercept form of the given equation. Below we have highlighted how it corresponds to the general slope-intercept form. y=4/3x+19/6 When written this way, we can see that m=43 and b=196. Since this equation can be written in slope-intercept form, it is linear.