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A linear function is one defined as only having variables of the first degree. Since both the y and the x are to the first power (not y² or x² or x3) then yes, this is linear. The reason for this is that all first degree equations will graph straight lines, not curves. ■
Without an equality sign it is not an equation.
Yes.
A linear equation is the equation of a line and that consists of an infnite number of points. What you have, in x = -4 and y = -1/3, is a single point. A single point is not a line and so there cannot be a linear equation (suitable for a line) to represent a point.
A linear relationship. Added: And a function.
The equation x=c where c is a constant is the equation of a vertical line. It can't be a function but it is linear so the answer is no. For example, the vertical line produced by the linear equation x = 3 does not represent a function. We cannot write this equation so that y is a function of x because the only x-value is 3 and this "maps" to every real-number y.