SOLUTION: p - 4 = -9 + p

Algebra.Com
Question 705235: p - 4 = -9 + p
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There is no solution.

 p - 4 = -9 + p

We add -p to both sides

 p - 4 = -9 + p
-p           -p
---------------
    -4 = -9

When all variables are eliminated from an equation, and what is left
is a false statemenr, then that means there is no solution.  Such an
equation is called "a contradiction".

When all variables are eliminated from an equation, and what is left
is a true statement, that that means there are infinitely many solutions.

---------------------------------------------


Suppose we had had   x + 3 = 3 + x

  x + 3 = 3 + x
 -x          -x
---------------
      3 = 3

That is true so there are infinitely many solutions.  That is called "an
identity".

Edwin
RELATED QUESTIONS

p-4=-9+p (answered by jim_thompson5910)
P-4=-9+p (answered by ikleyn,josgarithmetic)
4(P-9)=64 (answered by RAY100)
9/4=18/p+4 (answered by TimothyLamb)
p-4/9p=-7/9 (answered by stanbon)
p-4/9p=7/9 (answered by JenniferTutors)
What is the solution to... (answered by solver91311,stanbon)
how do you solve this... (answered by ReadingBoosters)
p+3/p=... (answered by edjones)