Form Rules

Instructions and help about Form Rules

- [Instructor] We've talked about the idea of standard form of a linear equation in other videos, and the point of this video is to clarify something and resolve some differences that you might see in different classes in terms of what standard form is. So everyone agrees that standard form is generally a linear equation where you have some number times x plus some number times y is equal to some number. So things that are in standard form would include things like three x plus four y is equal to 10, or two x plus five y is equal to negative 10. Everyone would agree that these are standard form, and everyone would agree that the following are not standard form. So if I were to write three x is equal to negative four y plus 10. Even though these are equivalent equations, this is just not in standard form. Similarly, if I wrote that y is equal to three times x plus seven, this is also not in standard form. Now the place where some people might disagree is if you were to see something li