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

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 $\left(17 , 0\right)$
Standard form for the equation of a line is $A x + B y = C$

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:
$1 x + 0 y = 17$