Re: System of equations

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Subject: Re: System of equations
From: Ray Kremer <raykremer@HOTMAIL.COM>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 23:08:15 -0500
Reply-To: Ray Kremer <raykremer@HOTMAIL.COM>

Least common multiple doesn't really fit to any equation, so you would be
hard pressed to have the calc solve this right away.  I don't know if it's
the best way but what I would do is set up a small program with a for loop
that does a guess and check of all the possible values of a and b.

>Can anyone  tell me how to solve this system of equation please:
>a+b=56 and lcm(a,b)=180 with a<b
>I couldn't solve this using my TI-89.
>I think that this type of equation can't be solved by the calculator.

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