Assertion: variable | /r/Synonym | unknown
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text: To distinguish them, the variable x is called an unknown, and the other variables are called parameters or coefficients, or sometimes constants, although this last terminology is incorrect for an equation and should be reserved for the function defined by the left-hand side of this equation.
text: The variable in an algebraic equation is an unknown value that can be calculated.
text: In this context (that is, when the variable "holds" a fixed value that you can find by solving), the variable may also be called "the unknown".
text: To distinguish them, the variable x is called an unknown, and the other variables are called parameters or coefficients, or sometimes constants, although this last terminology is incorrect for an equation, and should be reserved for the function defined by the left-hand side of this equation.