Darnells car used 8 gallons to travel 340. Miles after a machanic worked on the car it used 7 gallons of gasoline to travel 350
miles if the price of gasoline was approximately $4.00 per gallon how much less to the nearest cent per mile did it cost to run the car after the mechanic worked on it
in the linear equation the greatest power of the variables is 1 for example:2X+4 this is a linearequationasthegreatestpowerofthevariableX is 1also by drawing it in a graph you will obtain a straight line
while in the quadratic equation the greatestpoweris2for instance:X^2+4X-3 this is a QuadraticequationbecausethegreatestpowerofthevariableX is 2also by drawing it on a graph you will obtain a parabola which is a curve "an upward curve or downward curve"