This week in math 10 I learned the general form of an equation. Journal form is pretty much useless but it is easy to type in. First I will go over things that are necessary for an equation to be in general form.
The first number in general form must be positive. The next two numbers have to be integers and cannot be fractions. And the most important thing is everything is on one side of the equal sign.
now that I went over the key things that identify general form, let’s start with changing an Point slope form into general form.
Step #1: The first step is to distribute to make it more simplified.
Step #2: now we are going to want to subtract a six from each side so we can start moving things to the other side.
Step #3: next we are going to move what’s left to the other side and because it is negative it will become positive.
For our next example we are going to be changing general form into a slope intercept form. It is going to be similar as what we did before but backwards.
Step #1: first subtract the 2X to both sides of the equation which where it will become negative again.
Step #2: now we are going to add 15 on both sides of the equation.
Step #3: we need to isolate the variable so to do that we will divide both sides of the equation by 5.
Step #4: you are now left with a slope intercept form which now u can tell what the slope and y-intercept is. (Much more useful).
