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How would i solve this system of equations by hand of course

625A -125B +25C -5D +E =4.5

112A -34.3B +10.6C -3.25D+E=2.25

0.00391A -0.0156B +0.0625C -.25D +E=6.25

92.4A + 29.8B +9.61C + 3.10 D + E= 1.40

625A +125B +25C +5D +E =3.85

Help would be very much appreciated

I suppose that in the third line you have missed a "C".

I've tried to do it and.... pfff It was infernal.

Luck with it!

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Try doing it in row operations... an augmented matrix.

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Play with them till you get a triangle of zeros. It'll be hard work for a while but you'll eventually get it

(for example if you subtract the last from the first, you'd cancel out three variables and be left with just another two.)

(also, I suggest you multiply all the equations by 100,000 so you can get rid of any decimals or by 10,000 so you'd have just one decimal place left not 5 such as 0.00391)

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I do hope you're Math SL/HL cause if you're studies I don't know if you'd have taken augmented matrices.

(btw you don't have to make it in triangle form, you just need to have one line with all variables, another with 1 less variable, and another with 2 less, and so on. It would still be solvable.)

Example:

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i just tried this, and man it was horrifying T___T i got nowhere, well i managed to get 2 rows with 0s and 1s

Solve for the variables in those rows and you can figure out the rest. I don't really see a point to this whole exercise though... the exam will never ask you something that stupid i.e. solving by hand. Just use your GDC.

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Finding the inverse of a 5x5 matrix is literally impossible.

Eternal, you don't need to have them 0's and 1's, you just need to have it in the form I described, no need to have the 1's. You can have 0.0453298239 as a coefficient for that matter and it'll still be solvable if you have the correct numbers of zeros.

I have solved them for you. The results I got are pretty weird tho.

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The only way this can be solved by hand is using an augmented matrix and that would take some time.

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Finding the inverse of a 5x5 matrix is literally impossible.

Eternal, you don't need to have them 0's and 1's, you just need to have it in the form I described, no need to have the 1's. You can have 0.0453298239 as a coefficient for that matter and it'll still be solvable if you have the correct numbers of zeros.

I have solved them for you. The results I got are pretty weird tho.

Answers:

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The only way this can be solved by hand is using an augmented matrix and that would take some time.

Why not use a calculator? Can't TI 84+ do inverse of 5x5 matrix? I can hardly imagine a 5 equation simultaneous equation with decimals showing up on paper 1. It's a waste of time to try to do this by hand, since you would never have to do it on the exam or in real life...

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Could someone teach me how to do this on the Ti-84 Calculator i tried and failed.

625A -125B +25C -5D +E =4.5

112A -34.3B +10.6C -3.25D+E=2.25

0.00391A -0.0156B +0.0625C -.25D +E=6.25

92.4A + 29.8B +9.61C + 3.10 D + E= 1.40

625A +125B +25C +5D +E =3.85

2nd MATRIX -> EDIT -> MATRIXPost by: Aboo 5x6 -> Enter the coefficients like this:

625 -125 25 -5 1 4.5

112 -34.3 10.6 -3.25 1 2.25

0.00391 -0.00156 0.0625 -0.25 1 6.25

92.4 29.8 9.61 3.10 1 1.40

625 125 25 5 1 3.85

After this painful step, press 2nd QUIT -> 2nd MATRIX -> MATH -> go down to B: rref( -> ENTER -> 2nd MATRIX -> NAMES 1: Post by: Aboo -> ENTER -> ENTER

This should solve it:

1 0 0 0 0 .0237917439

0 1 0 0 0 .0067754855

0 0 1 0 0 -.6771392759

0 0 0 1 0 -.2343871376

0 0 0 0 1 6.233641964

Therefore, A=.0237917439, B=.0067754855, C=-.6771392759, D=-.2343871376, E=6.233641964.

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