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How can you tell when an equation in one variable has infinitely many solutions or no solution?

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A system has infinitely many solutions when it is consistent and the number of variables is more than the number of nonzero rows in the rref of the matrix. For example if the rref is ��has solution set (4-3z, 5+2z, z) where z can be any real number.

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