SOLUTION: How can I solve the following proportion x-3/4=x+3/7
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Question 867928: How can I solve the following proportion x-3/4=x+3/7
Answer by josgarithmetic(39625) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
What proportion? You can try to solve for x in your equation, but your equation is not a proportion.
You wrote, x-3/4=x+3/7;
As rendered,
Steps for solution:
, because LCD is 4*7=28
You can not isolate x in this equation, and this equation has NO solution.
Also, before doing any steps, you could see from the given equation that left and right sides cannot be equal; both sides have term x and each side has a different constant term, and these constant terms are unequal; again cannot isolate x and no solution.
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