SOLUTION: 3(e+4)-(3e+12)=0 0=0 What is the answer called? Is it the real numbers or the null set?

Question 1180884: 3(e+4)-(3e+12)=0
0=0
What is the answer called? Is it the real numbers or the null set?
Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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If you accurately simplify it, you will get the identity

    0 = 0,

which is always valid.



It means that the original equation is valid for ANY value of "e", i.e. has INFINITELY MANY SOLUTIONS.


Any real number "e" is the solution to the original equation.



Or, in other words, the original equation is, actually, an IDENTITY.

Solved, answered and carefully explained.

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