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Algebra question please help

Algebra question please help-example-1

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Our equation is x = x- 9. Let's solve it for x and see what happens.

x = x - 9

0 = -9 after subtracting x on both sides.

Hmm. 0 = -9. It looks odd, but it's a statement that is never true. When we get a never (never ever ever!) true statement there are zero solutions.


Thus the equation has zero solutions.

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subtract x to both sides 0=-9

number of solutions is 0

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