{"id":248444,"date":"2025-07-08T11:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=248444"},"modified":"2025-07-08T11:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:16:14","slug":"solve-the-equation-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/08\/solve-the-equation-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Solve the equation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Solve the equation. Then determine whether the equation is an identity, a conditional equation, or an inconsistent equation. (4x)\/(x-3)=(12)\/(x-3)+7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-1-color\">The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s solve the equation step by step:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The given equation is:4xx\u22123=12x\u22123+7\\frac{4x}{x &#8211; 3} = \\frac{12}{x &#8211; 3} + 7x\u221234x\u200b=x\u2212312\u200b+7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 1: Eliminate the denominator<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We notice that both terms on the left and right side of the equation have a denominator of x\u22123x &#8211; 3x\u22123. To simplify, we can multiply the entire equation by x\u22123x &#8211; 3x\u22123 (assuming x\u22603x \\neq 3x\ue020=3 because division by zero is undefined):(x\u22123)\u00d74xx\u22123=(x\u22123)\u00d7(12x\u22123+7)(x &#8211; 3) \\times \\frac{4x}{x &#8211; 3} = (x &#8211; 3) \\times \\left(\\frac{12}{x &#8211; 3} + 7\\right)(x\u22123)\u00d7x\u221234x\u200b=(x\u22123)\u00d7(x\u2212312\u200b+7)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This simplifies to:4x=12+7(x\u22123)4x = 12 + 7(x &#8211; 3)4x=12+7(x\u22123)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 2: Expand the terms<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Now expand the right side:4x=12+7x\u2212214x = 12 + 7x &#8211; 214x=12+7x\u221221<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simplify further:4x=7x\u221294x = 7x &#8211; 94x=7x\u22129<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 3: Move terms involving xxx to one side<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To isolate xxx, subtract 7x7x7x from both sides:4x\u22127x=\u221294x &#8211; 7x = -94x\u22127x=\u22129<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simplify:\u22123x=\u22129-3x = -9\u22123x=\u22129<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 4: Solve for xxx<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, divide both sides by \u22123-3\u22123:x=3x = 3x=3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 5: Check for restrictions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Recall that we excluded x=3x = 3x=3 earlier, since it would make the denominators in the original equation zero. Therefore, the solution x=3x = 3x=3 is not valid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conclusion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Since x=3x = 3x=3 leads to division by zero in the original equation, there is no valid solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This makes the equation <strong>inconsistent<\/strong>, meaning there is no solution for xxx.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/learnexams-banner8-234.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-248445\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solve the equation. Then determine whether the equation is an identity, a conditional equation, or an inconsistent equation. (4x)\/(x-3)=(12)\/(x-3)+7 The Correct Answer and Explanation is: Let&#8217;s solve the equation step by step: The given equation is:4xx\u22123=12x\u22123+7\\frac{4x}{x &#8211; 3} = \\frac{12}{x &#8211; 3} + 7x\u221234x\u200b=x\u2212312\u200b+7 Step 1: Eliminate the denominator We notice that both terms on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}