Question 235109
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There is no "answer" to *[tex \LARGE x\ -\ y\ =\ -2]


You have a single linear equation in two variables.  The solution set is a countably infinite set of ordered pairs of the form *[tex \Large \left(x,y\right)] such that the difference between the two coordinates in any one of the elements of the solution set is -2.


You could graph it.  But you didn't ask for that.


If this were part of a consistent and independent system of two variable linear equations, you could find the single ordered pair that is the solution set of the <i>system</i>.


Or you could just sit there and look at it -- it is a very cute little equation after all.


But you cannot find "the answer" to it.  Sorry.


John
*[tex \LARGE e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0]
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