For example, to check the second example above, we can write:. Some equations involve fractions. The basic goal of isolating the unknown remains the same, but we need to get rid of the denominators.
There are two main methods for solving these sorts of equations. An alternative method is to multiply both sides of the equation by the lowest common denominator of the two fractions, which in this case is This removes all the fractions in one step. Impossible Equations and Identities.
In all the examples dealt with above, applying the rules produced an equation with the unknown on one side and a single number on the other.
That is the equation had just one solution. Since this last statement is always true, the equation we started with is true for all values of x and so is, in fact, an identity. Equations are very useful in solving problems. The basic technique is to determine what quantity it is that we are trying to find and make that the unknown. We then translate the problem into an equation and solve it. You should always try to minimise the number of unknowns. The desktop cost 5 times as much as the printer.
What was the cost of each item? Although there are two costs we are looking for, we always try to minimise the number of unknowns. Grant runs half the distance to school and walks for the remainder of the journey. He takes 50 minutes to complete the trip. Find the distance Grant has to travel to school. We will use metres and seconds as our units. Let x metres be half the distance to the school. David travels from town A to town B.
The total time for the journey is 4 hours. What it the distance from A to B? A simple extension of the types of equations dealt with above, is to combine brackets and fractions. In some problems, one or more of the pieces of information might not be given explicitly as a number, but as a general quantity. Thus we may have an equation in which we have not only the unknown we seek, but also other pronumerals whose values we regard as given.
In solving such an equation, we need to specify carefully which variable we are solving for. Equations such as this are sometimes referred to as literal equations. We proceed using the usual rules, keeping our focus on the unknown x. Many problems involve finding values of two or more unknowns. These are often linked via a number of linear equations. For example, if I tell you that the sum of two numbers is 89 and their difference is 33, we can let the larger number be x and the smaller one y and write the given information as a pair of equations:.
These are called simultaneous equations since we seek values of x and y that makes both equations true simultaneously. More difficult examples of simultaneous equations and methods to solve them are studied in Years 9 and 10 and will be covered the module, Introduction to Coordinate Geometry.
All the equations treated up to now in this module are known as linear equations since the unknown x only appears to the first power. Equations in which the unknown appears also to the power two are called quadratic equations. Such equations may have. The techniques for solving these are covered in Years 9 and 10, and will be covered the module, Quadratic Equations. These types of equations are of tremendous importance in mathematics and its many applications.
The Greek mathematician Diophantus wrote a collections of books in which he posed problems whose solutions were restricted to being whole numbers or rational numbers. Equations whose solutions are required to be integers are often referred to as Diophantine equations.
If we restrict x and y to be whole numbers, then the only solutions are:. Multiply the equation through by 6 ab to remove all the fractions. Now since the solutions are positive whole numbers, we equate each bracket with a factor of There is no systematic method for solving all diophantine equations. A toolkit of methods and techniques is helpful. The exponent is the number of times the base is used as a factor.
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