Thread: Simple Linear equations

Hello I am having difficulties in solving this simple equation can someone help me please?
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these are the steps I took: (the solution should be -1=0 ,false)
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Thank's a lot

There are multiple ways of thinking about this, but I'll do it in the way, given your solution, that it was "intended to be done".

You can factor out an x in the numerator of the fraction. So we have



Then you can cancel to get




which implies


Thus we have a contradiction, and there are no solutions.

thanks a lot for your answer so precise and fast, I often make careless mistakes ^^
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step 2 in your solution needs correction
= 0
but on solving it gives x = 1 which makes given equation undefined so no solution for it

Thank you very much, now I understand