>>>See this: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060911120122AABNVGI
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>>>I've been playing with it, and I'm not sure how they got this.
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>>>>>Solve for x. Show your work and check your answer:
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>>>>>2x +3y = 6
>>>>
>>>>You forgot a second equation.
>>>>
>>>>Otherwise x & y can be anything.
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>>
>>x = 0
>>y = 2
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>>2x0 = 0 + 3*2 = 6
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>Plus an endless number of other solutions - just put any number for y and solve for x. Actually, there's as many solutions for this as there are real numbers - that's c-infinity, larger than aleph-zero which is the smallest infinite number, or the number of (positive) integers.
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>The text of the exercise said "solve for x" which means "transform into a x=< expression >" using the legal algebraic transformations. "Legal" here means "operations which transform an equation into another equation with the same set of solutions".
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>I'm amazed/amused that we're having this discussion at all. That's elementary school algebra.


Agreed Professor