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Fill in the blanks to make each statement true:

In a linear equation, the …………. Power of the variable appearing in the equation is one.

Graph sample of linear equations.

A linear equation is an algebraic equation in which every term is either a constant or the product of a constant and a single variable.


Example: 2x + y = 6 is an equation in two variables.


The highest power of both the variables is 1.

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