How do you change $y= -x - 2$ to standard form?

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Answer 1 · 2015-04-01T18:29:21

The answer is : $x + y + 2 = 0$

Standard form is of the form:
$ax + by + c = 0$
So,
$y = -x - 2$ becomes
$x + y + 2 = 0$

Note that :
In this particular case $a = 1$ , $b = 1$ , $c = 2$ !

How do you change y= -x - 2y= -x - 2 to standard form?