Seriously, has your teacher or your lecturer or your
tutor has ever given you an equation and
told you to draw a graph after solving it? If you are clueless about you will
waste most of your time trying to figure out how to do that. Anyway, an
equation that has two variables e.g. x and y
is called a linear equation.
The mentioned variables are commonly used worldwide to
create a linear equation. However, some math books could use p and q, or a and
b to create equations.
Most of the time a linear equation is something that has
been written down for you to see it. It could look something like this
3x + 5y = 12 or p=
8q -15. These are examples of linear equations.
The above equation is pretty clear or straight forward.
Nonetheless, you can come across an equation which has been written in words. In this case, you have to carefully follow the
instructions in order to come up with the
write equation.
Want to
learn how to solve a linear equation?
It is one thing to
correctly deduce an equation from a given sentence and another to solve
it. If you think linear equations are giving you headaches when trying to solve them, you should start smiling because
there is a better way to do it. All you need to do is to go in line and browse to www.quickmath.com. This is a
site that will give you a better view of solving linear equations. The examples
here are many, and all of them have been clearly
solved step wise. So, if you get lost along the way, you can easily retrace your
steps up until the place where you had understood.
Learn how
to draw a graph.
Let us say that you have understood how to solve linear equations, you can never stop there, that is, if you want to score all the
marks for that question. Normally, all linear
equations lead to values that can be used to draw a graph. Drawing a graph at some point may even earn you more
marks than getting the solution of the equation given.
Again, QuickMath will take you through all the steps
that are there to draw a graph. I will encourage students or whoever wants to
draw a graph, to go through the provided steps. That way, he or she will have a
clear understanding of drawing linear graphs. Tutors and lecturers can take
advantage of this site too to gain more knowledge on graphs. Once you are
satisfied that you can draw graphs, you can use the first example I gave above.
Make sure that you solve it and then draw a graph
afterward. Will check you sometimes
answer later.
So, for tutors and lecturers or teachers, good luck with
the tutoring/teaching /lecturing the students! While for the students, all the
best in sitting for that math Continuous
Assessment Test (C.A.T) or that final exam!