How do you write #x=17# in standard form?

1 Answer
Jul 18, 2015

It depends on how you are thinking of it.

Explanation:

"Standard Form" means different things when applied to different objects.

Polynomial Equation
This question was posted as a question about "Polynomials in Standard Form".
This equation is not a polynomial , but we can think of it as a polynomial equation.
Standard form for a polynomial equation has the polynomial on the left and #0# on the right.

For this equation, we write #x-17 = 0#.

Equation of a Line (Linear equation in two variables.)

We can also think of this as an equation in two variables whose graph is a straight line. (It it the vertical line through the point #(17,0)#
Standard form for the equation of a line is #Ax+By = C#

Because we usually do not write coefficients of #1# and we usually don't write terms with coefficient #0#, it is already in an acceptable standard form. #x=17#

If we want to make it more explicit, we could write:
#1x+0y = 17#