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Without graphing, is each system independent, dependent or inconsistent?-x -3y = 0x - y = 4

Without graphing, is each system independent, dependent or inconsistent?-x -3y = 0x-example-1
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An idependent system of equations has exactly one solution.

The system given is an independent system of equations.

To notice this we can solve the system or we can notice that we won't be able to get the second equation from the first one; the last part comes from the fact that there's no real number that we can mutiply to zero to get the four in the second equation.

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