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Thursday, February 20, 2020

PotW: Finding the Value of a Polynomial [Algebra]

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3 comments:

  1. UnknownFebruary 22, 2020 at 9:26 AM

    your solution should state "multiply the second equation by -3, the THIRD equation by 3..."

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  2. BoFebruary 23, 2020 at 3:40 AM

    Oh... you fooled me for a minute... Bad on me to assume x,y,z are integers, because clearly then it is impossible to satisfy the first 2 equations... Hee hee… once I realized they were rational numbers, it was easy... Cheers, Bo... BMath

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