What is standard form for $-2x - 2y - 8 = 0$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-05-07T07:17:42

The Standard Form equation of a line is given by $color(blue)(ax+by = c$ , where $a,b!=0$

The equation given to us is $-2x - 2y - 8 = 0$

We can divide both sides of the equation by -2 to remove the coefficients of $x and y$

$(-2x - 2y - 8)/-2 = 0/-2$

$x + y + 4 = 0$

Transposing $4$ to the right hand side, we get:

$color(green)( x + y = -4$

This is the Standard Form of the equation $-2x - 2y - 8 = 0$

What is standard form for -2x - 2y - 8 = 0-2x - 2y - 8 = 0?