document.write( "Question 1129186: Use any method to solve the nonlinear system. (Order your answers from smallest to largest x, then from smallest to largest y. If there is no solution, enter NO SOLUTION.)\r
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document.write( "x^2 + y^2= 6
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document.write( "xy= 1\r
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document.write( "Can someone help, I use the method of and my final answers, which keeps being tagged incorrect, have been:
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document.write( "x: -1, y:
+1
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document.write( "x: - +1, y: -
-1
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document.write( "x: +1, y:
-1
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document.write( "x: - -1, y: -
+1\r
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document.write( "Am I just incorrectly ordering them from smallest to least or are the entire answers wrong?
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document.write( "Here is some of my work:
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document.write( "For x^2 + y^2= 6, substitute x with 1/y.
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document.write( "(1/y)^2 +y^2= 6; \r
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document.write( "For xy=1, substitute y with +1
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document.write( "x( +1 )=1
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document.write( "x= -1\r
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document.write( "For xy=1, substitute y with -1
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document.write( "x( -1 )=1
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document.write( "x= +1\r
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document.write( "For xy=1, substitute y with - +1
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document.write( "x(- +1 )=1
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document.write( "x= - -1\r
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Algebra.Com's Answer #745740 by ikleyn(52790)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! . \n" ); document.write( " \r\n" ); document.write( "Your solutions are correct. I mean, you have the set of four solutions correctly.\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "Their ordering instruction is presented in a very strange way.\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "You can order the pairs looking in x first, but then you have no choice to order in y.\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "It forces me to think that they ask you to make your ordering TWICE:\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( " - first time by ordering 4 pairs looking in x; \r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( " - and the second time by ordering the same 4 pairs looking in y.\r\n" ); document.write( "\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "In any way, it is not a Mathematical way to formulate an assignment.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "----------------\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The two other tutors presented the solutions to the roots, although nobody asked them to do it - you just have the solutions correctly.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The post by @josgarithmetic is the way to NOWHERE, as it often happens with him - so you can simply IGNORE his post, for your safety.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " |