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11 years ago
How would you be able determine if a system that has infinitely many solutions without solving?  

What does it mean to have infinitely many solutions?

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11 years ago
You need to solve it. When it has infinately many solutions it means you can plug in any number and you will get the same answer. ex: 0x=0 simple but I hope it helps.
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11 years ago
I guess you'll have to solve it O_O

If the equation is like 2x+5=5+2x that would have infinite numbers (but this is not linear equation)

If you mean the solution as a slope

straight horizontal line has 0 slope

and straight vertical line has no solution
sorry it may not help O_O
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11 years ago
you need n number of unique equations to solve n number of unknowns.

when there are more unknowns then unique equations you get infinitely many solutions.

for example
equation 1: 2x - 6y = 0
equation 2: 4x -12y = 0

these two equations are different equations but they are not unique. the second equation is just a multiple of the first.

There is a method of knowing it's solvable or not. First find the determinant if it is 0 then the linear equations has no unique set of solution.

(to find the determinant put the linear equation into matrix form: for the above example
det |2   -6|
...... |4 -12| = 0

thus it has infinitely many solutions.
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