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Malcolm says that y = -1.5x + 4 in standard form is 1.5x + y = 4. What is the error that Malcolm made?

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Recall that the standard form of the line is of the form


Ax+By=C

where A,B and C are constants. What is most important is that in standard form, the numbers A,B,C are integers. This means that they cannot be fractions nor decimal numbers.

Starting from the equation y=-1.5x+4, Malcolm did right by adding 1.5x on both sides

so we have 1.5x+y=4. However, 1.5 is a decimal number. So he needs to multiply the whole equation by 2, so he does not have any more decimals on the standard form. That is


2\cdot(1.5x+y)=4\cdot2

so the standard form is


3x+2y=8

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