Given: x = 1 and y = 1 therefor:
x = y
1. Multiply each side by x:
x² = xy
2. Subtract y² from each side:
x²-y² = xy-y²
3. Factor each side:
(x+y)(x-y) = y(x-y)
4. Divide by the common term (x-y):
x+y = y
5. Put the initial values back in the equation:
1+1 = 1
or
2 = 1
or
2 = 1
Professor Egghead saw the problem right away, can you?
Something wrong at step 3 but I can't explain it
ReplyDeleteI think...
ReplyDeleteIt has to do with the square of 1 still being equal to one...multiplying by 1 does not increase the value of the numbers.
The problem is you cannot divide by zero and x-y is 0!
ReplyDeleteyou can't divide by zero
ReplyDeletethe problem is between step 3 and 4
ReplyDeleteThe suy has taken s-y in both sides of eqn and we know that x=y so x-y is 0.there fore we cant cancel out the term x-y becoz 0 cant be cancelled in two side...
the reason for that is say:
0 x 3=0 x 5
it doesn not mean 5 = 3..
so i found out the mistake
i should be rewarded...
that is completly wrong!
ReplyDeletex^2-y^2 is not equal to (x+y)(x-y) but to x^2+b^2-2xy!
dork
that last 'anonymous'....W*H*A*T*????
ReplyDeletethe problem is step 3: the right side of the equation is incorrect. xy-y2 does not equal y(x-y). So (x-y) is not the common denominator.
ReplyDeleteX=1 therefore, Y must equal something else. The point of using different letters for variables is that they represent different numbers. If that weren't true, then x=y and you stop there.
ReplyDeleteIf we ignore the fact that x and y technically should represent different variables and carry on...
ReplyDeleteStep one is moot. If x = 1 then multiplying both x and y by x at step one still results in 1 on both sides of the equation.
please excuse my dear aunt sally, see is very old and did not mean to confuse everyone.
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