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Past exam of the mathematical methods I course of the University of Oxford 2019 resit 6 Solution by
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The last equation gives , and the first then gives . Together with the middle equation this reduces the consistency question to .
If , the linear system has the unique solutionIf and , the middle equation repeats one third of , giving the affine line of solutionsIf and , the two equations contradict each other and there is no solution. These are three possible types of solution set, rather than three individual solutions for one fixed choice of parameters.
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