What you're missing is that this is a dependent system and there are infinitely many solutions to the system. When you try to solve them by the elimination method, If you clear the fraction of the second 2x-5=3/2y you get: 4x-10=3y And put it in standard order 4x-3y=10 which is identical to the first equation. So when you try to solve them by elimination, you get: 4x-3y = 10 -4x+3y =-10 ----------- 0y = 0 So you don't get 0, you get 0y = 0 And every value of y will satisfy that equation. So there are infinitely many solutions. Graphically they are two lines one coinciding with the other. Therefore they "intersect" everywhere. The "solution" is "It is a dependent system with infinitely many solutions." Edwin