Question

¿Why 4x+3y-11 is not a first degree equation?

Answer 1

Respuesta:

The question asks for a first-degree equation, but the problem shown is giving us an expression.

Or: the problem is not a first-degree equation because it is just an expression.

Explicación paso a paso:

To understand the problem completely, we need to know that 4x + 3y - 11 is merely an expression since there's no equal sign trying to calculate anything. If it were 4x + 3y - 11 = 0 it would be called an equation, more precisely a first-degree equation.

When an expression has two or more terms the term with the highest degree dictates the degree of the whole expression. In this problem we see that both the terms 4x and 3y are to the first power, meaning that the degree of the whole expression is to the first-degree.