SOLUTION: The graph of a system of equations will intersect at exactly 1 point. always ? sometimes? never?

Question 312824: The graph of a system of equations will intersect at exactly 1 point.
always ?
sometimes?
never?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Sometimes.

The system may represent: two parallel lines that never intersect at all, or two representations of the same line that intersect at every point on either line, or two planes that intersect in a line, or two parallel planes that don't intersect at all, or a pair of skew lines in

that neither intersect nor are parallel, or an inconsistent system of

-dimensional vectors, or...

John

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