Aleks is an idiot……
Ok, before anyone thinks I’m talking about a real person or something allow me to explain. ALEKS is an online math…..something. Exactly what I’m unsure. We take quizzes and such through it and are able to review materials from class. Sounds useful right? Well it is to a certain extent except for the fact that a Hamster has more intelligence than ALEKS. No seriously I’m not joking. As you know, I’m a computer guy. So allow me to be the first to tell you that computers are imbeciles. No, really, they are. A computer has absolutely no idea of how to do something until it is told exactly how and given precise guidelines. Anyway I’ll stop my brief rant and merely leave you with this monument to ALEKS’s brilliance…… Aleks
Look! C = the exact same thing except they are backwards. I even went to all the trouble of plotting a ridiculous amount of points on that line and they only put two 
-UPDATE- Lol! Check out this sequel to this post.
-JD
Dear JD,
Thank you for using ALEKS.
ALEKS determined your answer to be incorrect not because the terms in your answer were in a different order from the ALEKS representation of the equation (ALEKS would have accepted that), but because the points on your graph were not collinear. Recall that only two points are required to determine a line.
Best regards,
Jeff King
ALEKS Corporation Customer Support
(714) 245-7191 x205
jeff@aleks.com
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Wow! I never even considered the possibility that someone actually from ALEKS would read my post! Thanks for the reply. It helps to know that there was a reason for it and not just ALEKS deciding to freak out on me. The program merely gets frustrating sometimes, but it really does help out quite a bit.
-JD