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Each value of the unknown for which the equation holds is called a solution of the given equation; also stated as satisfying the equation. For example, the equation x 2 − 6 x + 5 = 0 {\displaystyle x^{2}-6x+5=0} has the values x = 1 {\displaystyle x=1} and x = 5 {\displaystyle x=5} as its only solutions.
The first use of an equals sign, equivalent to 14x + 15 = 71 in modern notation. From The Whetstone of Witte by Robert Recorde of Wales (1557). [1]In mathematics, an equation is a mathematical formula that expresses the equality of two expressions, by connecting them with the equals sign =.
A linear equation with two variables has many (i.e. an infinite number of) solutions. [38] For example: Problem in words: A father is 22 years older than his son. How old are they? Equivalent equation: = + where y is the father's age, x is the son's age. That cannot be worked out by itself.
Pell's equation, also called the Pell–Fermat equation, is any Diophantine equation of the form =, where n is a given positive nonsquare integer, and integer solutions are sought for x and y. In Cartesian coordinates , the equation is represented by a hyperbola ; solutions occur wherever the curve passes through a point whose x and y ...
Here, Einstein used V to represent the speed of light in vacuum and L to represent the energy lost by a body in the form of radiation. [5] Consequently, the equation E = mc 2 was not originally written as a formula but as a sentence in German saying that "if a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminishes by L ...
Two linear systems using the same set of variables are equivalent if each of the equations in the second system can be derived algebraically from the equations in the first system, and vice versa. Two systems are equivalent if either both are inconsistent or each equation of each of them is a linear combination of the equations of the other one.
However, the discriminant of this equation is positive, so this equation has three real roots (of which only one is the solution for the cosine of the one-third angle). None of these solutions are reducible to a real algebraic expression , as they use intermediate complex numbers under the cube roots .
The system + =, + = has exactly one solution: x = 1, y = 2 The nonlinear system + =, + = has the two solutions (x, y) = (1, 0) and (x, y) = (0, 1), while + + =, + + =, + + = has an infinite number of solutions because the third equation is the first equation plus twice the second one and hence contains no independent information; thus any value of z can be chosen and values of x and y can be ...