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Explain why the following equation is nonlinear. y=3x^5

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Answer:

A linear equation is an equation of a straight line, which means that the degree of a linear equation must be 0 or 1 for each of its variables. In this case, the degree of variable y is 1 and the degree of variable x is 5 .

Therefore, it is not linear.

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