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When do you get an answer to a system of linear equations that has one solution, no solution and infinitely many solutions?

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One solution: when two lines intersect in exactly one point.

Infinitely many solutions: When one of two lines can be shown algebraically to be exactly the same as the other. The two lines coincide.

No solution: The two lines have the same slope but different y -intercepts. They can't and don't intersect.

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