Question 1147938
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<U>Given the following system of equations,</U> what positive value of k would make the lines below parallel? kx+2y=8  and 18x+ky=12

Thank you!
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Notice that the problem could be formulated in  <U>MUCH SHORTER way</U>  by omitting all the words starting from the very first word

and ending by the "comma" symbol, without any loss in its meaning.


So, these words in the problem formulation (underlined by me) are absolutely useless, unnecessary and excessive in the condition (!)
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For the author of a Math problem, it is a "great sin" to introduce  useless, unnecessary and excessive words into the condition . . . 



At the normal/regular editorial environment, such a formulation would never had a chance to be issued publicly (!)