Determine if Linear y=|x|+4

A linear equation is an equation of a straight line, which means that the degree of a linear equation must be ${\displaystyle 0}$ or ${\displaystyle 1}$ for each of its variables. In this case, the degree of variable ${\displaystyle y}$ is ${\displaystyle 1}$, the degrees of the variables in the equation violate the linear equation definition, which means that the equation is not a linear equation.