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document.write( "You must have copied this problem wrong, or your teacher or the\r\n" );
document.write( "the textbook writer made a mistake, for there is no solution. \r\n" );
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document.write( "I will work a problem exactly like yours, changing 1/12 to 1/9. \r\n" );
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document.write( "Let n = the denominator

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document.write( "Multiply through by the LCD = 9n(n+2)\r\n" );
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document.write( "n+5=0;   n-4=0\r\n" );
document.write( "  n=-5;    n=4\r\n" );
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document.write( "denominator = n = 4\r\n" );
document.write( "numerator = n-1 = 4-1 = 3\r\n" );
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document.write( "(with 1/12) has no solution.\r\n" );
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