Saturday, November 23, 2013

solve: x-5/3=x-3/5

This equation has no solution: 
x-5/3=x-3/5 
x-x-5/3=x-x-3/5 

-5/3=-3/5 which is clearly not true. Whenever we can simplify an equation enough to determine that it will always be false, we know that the equation has no solution. 

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