Question

Present age of son is 5 less than 1/5th to the age of his gather.write a linear equation

Answer 1

Answer:

x/5 - y - 5 = 0

Step-by-step explanation:

let father's age be x

let son's age be y

therefore, y = x/5 - 5

=>         x/5 - y - 5 = 0

Answer 2

The linear equation is: $y = \frac{x}{5} - 5$

Solution:

Linear equation is of form : y = mx + b

Let the age of father be "x"

Let the present age of son be "y"

Given that,

Present age of son is 5 less than 1/5th to the age of his father

Which means,

$\text{Present age of son } = \frac{1}{5} \times \text{ age of father } - 5$

$y = \frac{1}{5}x - 5\\\\y = \frac{x}{5} - 5$

Thus the linear equation is found

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